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Administrative fees

Administrative fees are defined by the Act. No 145/1995 Coll. on Administrative fees as amended and are paid to a bank account of the Office.


Item 1  
The proposal to reopen a case or instigation for revision of decision besides appeal procedure at the state authority, if the proposal is filed by  
1. natural person  16,50 €
2. legal person or natural person entitled for bussines activity  165,50 €
 
Note
The fee paid for instigation for revision of decision besides appeal procedure will be refund if the instigation was satisfied in full range. 		 

Item 214
a) Issue of a duplicate, extract from Register, documents, official documents and records specified in this section of the tariff, for each page  3 €
b) Filing an application to perform an expert examination or examination of proving a professional capability for performing the profession of patent attorney  49,50 €
 
Item 215
Filing an application under this section of the tariff in respect of proceedings on  
a) further processing  66 €
b) restitutio in integrum  165,50 €
c) the second and subsequent extensions of the time limit  16,50 €
d) issue of a certificate concerning the priority right, for each priority document  16,50 €

Patents, Supplementary protection certificates, European patents
Item 216  
a) Filing a patent application  
   1. by an inventor or co-inventors   26,50 €
   2. by an applicant other than inventor or by applicants who are not identical with co-inventors  53 €
b) Filing a request for  
   1. supplemental granting the prior right   66 €
   2. supplemental accepting the prior document   66 €
   3. publication of a patent application prior to a period laid down by the Law   19,50 €
   4. registration of an assignment and transfer of a patent application to other applicant or of an assignment and transfer of a patent to other owner into the Register   26,50 €
   5. registration of another inventor into the Register   16,50 €
   6. registration of change in name, surname or permanent address, tradename, title or the seat of an applicant for a patent application, inventor of an invention or owner of a patent into the Register, for each patent application or patent respectively   6,50 €
   7. registration of change in a representative of a patent applicant or owner of a patent into the Register, for each patent application or patent respectively   6,50 €
   8. registration of a licence agreement or registration of a licence termination into the Register, for each patent   16,50 €
   9. registration of a compulsory licence or its cancellation into the Register   16,50 €
   10. registration of a right of a lien or its termination into the Register   16,50 €
   11. registration of a lawsuit or its termination into the Register   16,50 €
c) Filing a request to perform full examination of a patent application  
   1. up to 10 patent claims  116 €
   2. for any other patent claim  16,50 €
d) Issue of a Letters Patent  
   1. in the scope of up to 10 machine written pages or drawings  66 €
   2. for any other machine written page or drawing registration  6,50 €
e) Filing a request for granting a supplementary protection certificate 165,50 €
f) Renewal of a supplementary protection certificate pursuant to special regulations Council Regulation (EEC) No 1768/92 of 18 June 1992 concerning the creation of a supplementary protection certificate for medicinal products 33 €
 
Exemption
From the fee are exempted, pursuant to letter b), point 4 of this item, the requests according to the Law No. 92/1991 Coll. on conditions of assignment of assets of the state to other persons, as amended 		 
 
Note
The fee according to letter d) of this item, is payable within 2 months from the day of delivery of formal notice from the Office. If the records for issuing the Letters Patent are submitted within 2 months from the day of delivery of formal notice from the Office on the 3.5 inch diskette, CD, DVD or sent by e-mail, the related files are identified with the correspondent number of the patent application and edited in the "doc" format, or in the format "rtf" using the basic types of letters, eventually with filing the images in the format "tiff" with resolution 300 or 600 dpi, the fee is reduced to 2/3 of the tariff. 		 
 
Item 216a  
a) Conversion of a European patent application to the national patent application, national utility model or national utility certificate under Article 136(2) and Article 140 of the European Patent Convention, for each state  19,50 €
b) Publication and making available the translation of the claims or amended translation of the claims to the public and the notice in the Official Journal of the Industrial Property Office of the Slovak Republic  6,50 €
c) Publication and making available the translation or amended translation, or translation of the amended wording of the European patent  116 €
d) Publication and making available the filed translation of the European patent document in additional period  232 €
 
Item 217  
a) Filing a request for determination, whether a technical solution falls within a scope of a patent  165,5 €
b) Filing a request for revocation of a patent after the lapse of 6 months since a decision on granting a patent came into effect  49,50 €
c) Filing a request for revocation of a European patent  49,50 €
d) Filing a request for revocation or change of supplementary protection certificate  49,50 €
e) Filing a request for forfeiture of the rights and transfer of the patent or patent application  33 €
 
Note
If the filings pursuant to letter a) to d), are submitted within 5 days from the day of deliveryon the 3.5 inch diskette, CD, DVD or sent by e-mail, the related files are identified with thecorrespondent number of the patent application and edited in the "doc" format, or in theformat "rtf" using the basic types of letters, eventually with filing the images in the format "tiff" with resolution 300 or 600 dpi, the fee is reduced to 2/3 of the tariff.		  
 
Item 218
1. Maintaining a patent, European patent, in validity  
a) for the 3rd year  66 €
b) for the 4th year  82,50 €
c) for the 5th year  99,50 €
d) for the 6th year  116 €
e) for the 7th year  132,50 €
f) for the 8th year  149 €
g) for the 9th year  165,50 €
h) for the 10th year  199 €
i) for the 11th year  232 €
j) for the 12th year  265,50 €
k) for the 13th year  298,50 €
l) for the 14th year  331,50 €
m) for the 15th year  365 €
n) for the l6th year  398 €
o) for the 17th year  464,50 €
p) for the l8th year  531 €
q) for the l9th year  597 €
r) for the 20th year  663,50 €
 
2. Renewal of a supplementary protection certificate  
a) for the 1st year  995,50 €
b) for the 2nd year  1327,50 €
c) for the 3rd year  1659,50 €
d) for the 4th year  1991,50 €
e) for the 5th year  2323,50 €
 
3. Renewal of a supplementary protection certificate for the period pursuant to special regulations Council Regulation (EEC) No 1768/92 of 18 June 1992 concerning the creation of a supplementary protection certificate for medicinal products  829,50 €
 
Notes :
  1. The maintenance fees are paid for the years of the patent validity from the date of filing the patent application.
  2. The maintenance fees are paid for the years of the European patent validity from the date of filing the European patent application.
  3. The maintenance fees are paid for the years of the supplementary protection certificate validity from the date of filing the patent application or the European patent application, which are subsequent to the last year of the patent validity or European patent validity.
  4. The first maintenance fee for the patent is paid in the amount specified by the Law valid in time of payment and shall be paid within three months from the date of the decision on granting patent is valid. The decision on granting patent includes also the amount of fee.
  5. The first maintenance fee for the European patent is paid without the invitation of the Office in a year, which is subsequent to the year, when the grant of the European patent was announced in the European Patent Bulletin and shall be paid within three month at latest at date, which is identical with the date and month of the filing the European patent application, in the year, when the granting of the European patent was announced in the European Patent Bulletin or within two month since the date of the announcement on granting the European patent in the European Patent Bulletin according to which of the periods expires later.
  6. The first maintenance fee for the supplementary protection certificate shall be paid without the invitation of the Office before the last year of the patent or the European patent validity expires or within two months since the date of decision on granting the supplementary protection certificate is valid according to which of the periods expires later.
  7. The maintenance fee for the patent, European patent and supplementary protection certificate for each next year shall be paid without the invitation of the Office for the year ahead, latest at the date, when the previous year of the patent, European patent and supplementary protection certificate validity expires.
  8. If the fee is not paid within fixed period as specified in the points 2 to 7, it is possible to pay it within next 6 months but in this case the fee is doubled.
  9. For the maintaining a patent, European patent or supplementary protection certificate in validity, if the patent is a subject of offer of licence, the owner shall pay only 50 % of the fee.
  
 
Item 220
For the acts of the Office connected with filing of an international application under the Patent Co-operation Treaty  66 €


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