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Patents
There were 283 patent applications filed in 2006 that is increase by 13.2 % in comparison with the year 2005. The PCT applications form 21 % (58) of all applications.
The number of applications filed by domestic applicants (193) has increased by 24 %, on the other hand the applications filed by the foreign applicants declined by 5 %. The largest share in the number of patent application filed by foreign applicants (90) have the Czech Republic (29), the USA (15), and Hungary (15).
In the year 2006, 4 European applications were filed.
543 patents were granted that is decrease by 3 % in comparison with the year 2005.
There were 16 application of SPC’s filed in 2006. All of them are from foreign applicants, the most number is from the USA - 7 and from Germany - 5 applications. There were 12 SPC's granted.
On December 31, 2006 there were 4.118 valid patents in the Slovak Republic.
Utility models
There were 342 utility model applications filed in the Office in 2006. This number has decreased by 9.3 % in comparison with the previous year. The number of applications filed by the Slovak applicants decreased by 1.4 % (274 applications). The share of the Slovak applicants in total number of 342 applications is 80.1 %. Decrease of 10.6 % occurred in number of registered utility models (277).
On December 31, 2006 there were 1.756 valid utility models in the Slovak Republic.
In comparison with the statistics of the years 1999 - 2006, there are following results in patent and utility model areas:
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