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Administration fees - patents, European patents with effect for the Slovak Republic

Administrative fees are paid according to the Act of the National Council of the Slovak Republic No. 145/1995 Coll. on Administrative Fees, as amended (zákona Národnej rady Slovenskej republiky č. 145/1995 Z. z. o správnych poplatkoch v znení neskorších predpisov), to the account of the Office (účet úradu).

Item 1

An application for a retrial or an application for a review of a decision outside the appeal procedure before a public authority, if the latter is

1. a natural person 25 €
2. a legal person or a natural person authorised to do business 250 €

Note                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     The The fee paid under this heading shall be refunded if the retrial is granted or if the application for review of the decision outside the appeal procedure is granted in full

  

Item 214

(a) Issue of a specimen copy, extract from registers, files or official documents referred to in this Part of the Tariff, for each page, even for each page commenced

4 €

(b) Application to take a professional examination or an aptitude test to practise as a patent attorney

50 €

 

Item 215

The submission of an application in proceedings under this Part of the Tariff for

a) continuation of proceedings 66 €

b) restoration to the previous state

166 €

c) the second and any subsequent extension of the time limit

20 €

d) the issue of a certificate of priority, for each certificate

20 €

 

Item 216

a) Filing a patent application

1. the originator or co-originators

30 €

2. applicants other than the originator or applicants who are not identical to the co-authors

60 €

b) Submission of an application for

1. additional granting of priority

66 €

2. additional recognition of a priority document

66 €

3. publication of a patent application before the time limit prescribed by law

20 €

4. registration in the Register of the transfer or assignment of the rights of a patent application to another applicant or of the transfer or assignment of a patent to another proprietor

30 €

5. the registration of another originator, applicant or owner in the Register or the deletion of an originator, applicant or owner from the Register

20 €

6. the registration of the licence agreement or the registration of its termination in the register, for each patent application or patent

20 €

7. registration of the compulsory licence or registration of its revocation in the register

20 €

8. registration of the lien in the register or its deletion from the register, for each patent application or patent

20 

9. the registration of litigation or the registration of its termination in the Register, for each patent application or patent

20 €

10. the registration of the execution or the registration of its termination in the register, for each patent application or patent

20 €

(c) Filing of a request for a complete examination of a patent application

1. up to 10 asserted patent claims

116 €

2. for each additional patent claim filed

20 €

d) Issue of the patent deed

1. up to 10 machine-written pages or drawings

66 €

2. for each additional machine-written page or drawing

10 €

(e) Filing an application for a supplementary protection certificate

166 €

f) Extension of the period of validity of the supplementary protection certificate pursuant to a special provision 47)

100 €

g) Filing of a request for modification of the term of validity of the supplementary protection certificate

50 €

h) Submission of a request for a search within the priority period

116 €

Liberation

Applications pursuant to Act No 92/1991 Coll. on the conditions for the transfer of State property to other persons, as amended, are exempt from the fee pursuant to point (b) of the fourth paragraph of this item.

 

Notes

1) The Office shall levy a fee under subparagraph c) of this item at half the appropriate rate where an international-type search report has been carried out by the Office of the Visegrad Patent Institute pursuant to an international treaty48) or a priority search has been carried out in the the patent application process.

2. The fee referred to in point d) of this item shall be payable within two months from the date of receipt of the request by the Office.

 

Item 216a

a) a Conversion of an European patent application into a national patent application, a national utility model application or a national utility certificate application pursuant to Articles 135(2) and 140 of the European Patent Convention, for each State

20 €

b) Publication and making available to the public the translation of the patent claims or the corrected translation of the patent claims and notification in the Bulletin of the Industrial Property Office of the Slovak Republic

10 €

c) Publication and making available of a translation or a corrected translation or a translation of an amended version of the European patent

116 €

d) Publication and disclosure of the submitted translation of the European patent file within the additional time limit

232 €

 

Item 217

a) Submission of an application for designation

166 €

b) Filing a petition for revocation of a patent

200 €

c) Application for revocation of a European paten

200 €

d) Application for revocation or amendment of a supplementary protection certificate

200 €

 

Item 220

a) For acts of the Office in connection with the filing of an international application under the Patent Cooperation Treaty

66 €

b) For acts of the Office relating to the late submission of a translation

130 €

c) For acts of the Office relating to late payment of the international filing fee and the international search fee

50% international filing fee

d) For sending archival and search copies to the International Bureau, unless the Bureau is  the competent receiving Office

30 €

e) For renewal of the right of priority

166 €