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Patents
There were 282 patent applications filed with the IPO SR in 2010 that is increase by more than 18 % in comparison with 2009. PCT applications form 12.4 % (35 applications) of all applications.
The number of applications filed by domestic applicants (235) increased by 33.5 %, and applications filed by foreign applicants (47) decreased by 25.4 %. The largest share in the number of patent applications filed by foreign applicants (47) had the Czech Republic (13), the USA (10) and Germany (7).
In 2010, 4 European patent applications were filed with the IPO SR.
376 patents were granted in 2010 that is decrease by 32.1 % in comparison with 2009.
There were 17 supplementary protection certificate applications filed in 2010. All of them were filed by foreign applicants; the most of them were from the USA - 7, and from Belgium - 3. 12 supplementary protection certificates were granted in 2010.
1,898 translations of European patent specifications were published in the Slovak Republic during the year 2010 that is 1.4% more than during the previous year.
There were 10,907 valid patents entered in the Patent Register of the IPO SR by December 31, 2010; 3,935 of them were national patents granted; 6,972 were European patents with designation for SR.
Utility Models
There were 387 utility model applications filed with the Office in 2010. This number increased by 16.9 % in comparison with the previous year. The number of applications filed by Slovak applicants increased by 29.1% (306 applications). The share of Slovak applicants in total number of 387 applications is 79.1 %.
Increase by 13.2 % occurred in number of registered utility models (283).
On December 31, 2010, there were 1,545 valid utility models in the Slovak Republic.
For comparison, here are the statistics on filed patent and utility model applications, granted patents and registered utility models in the years 2005 - 2010:
Patentandutilitymodelstatistics_2010.doc
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