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The new Act No. 444/2002 on industrial designs came into force on October 1, 2002, replacing the previous Act No. 527/1990 on inventions, industrial designs and innovations.
In comparison with the statistics of the year 2001 and 2000, the results in 2002 in the industrial design area are as follows:
Merely 282 applications for industrial designs were filed with the Office in 2002 representing in total a 15.6 % increase in comparison with 2001. From foreign applicants, the most active are Germans (34), USA (19) and Czechs (13). Although the Slovak applicants filed 25 applications more than in 2001, the share of domestic applications is 63.8 % of the total.
By December 31, 2002, there were 1,608 valid industrial designs in the Slovak Republic.
The industrial design application procedure has been changed according to new Act No. 444/2002 on industrial designs.
Tab_designs.doc - Table of statistical data
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