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Patents
There were 345 patent applications filed in 2007 that is increase by 21.9 % in comparison with the year 2006. The PCT applications form 20 % (69) of all applications.
The number of applications filed by domestic applicants (239) has increased by 23.8 %, and the applications filed by the foreign applicants (106) also increased by 17.8 %.
The largest share in the number of patent application filed by foreign applicants (106) have the The USA (23), Germany (20) and The Czech Republic (18).
In the year 2007, 3 European applications were filed.
574 patents were granted that is increase by 5.7 % in comparison with the year 2006.
There were 10 application of SPC's filed in 2007. All of them are from foreign applicants, the most number is from the USA - 3, from Germany - 3 applications and from Suisse-3 applications. There were 13 SPC's granted.
On December 31, 2007 there were 4,266 valid patents in the Slovak Republic.
Utility models
There were 321 utility model applications filed in the Office in 2006. This number has decreased by 6.1 % in comparison with the previous year. The number of applications filed by the Slovak applicants decreased by 8 % (252 applications). The share of the Slovak applicants in total number of 321 applications is 78.5 %. Increase of 20 % occurred in number of registered utility models (332).
On December 31, 2007 there were 1,814 valid utility models in the Slovak Republic.
In comparison with the statistics of the years 2001 - 2007, there are following results in patent and utility model area:
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