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PATENTS
There were 239 patent applications filed in the IPO SR in 2009 that is decrease by 1.2 % in comparison with 2008. PCT applications form 18.8 % (45) of all applications.
The number of applications filed by domestic applicants (176) increased by 5.4 %, and applications filed by foreign applicants (63) decreased by 16.0 %.
The largest share in the number of patent applications filed by foreign applicants (63) had the USA (12), the Czech Republic (12) and Germany (10).
554 patents were granted in 2009 that is decrease by 2.1 % in comparison with 2008.
There were 14 SPC applications filed in 2009. All of them were filed by foreign applicants; the most of them were from the USA - 5, and from Germany - 4. 16 SPC's were granted in 2009.
There were 10 051 valid patents entered in the Patent Register of the IPO SR by December 31, 2009; 4 328 of them were national patents granted; 5 723 were European patents with designation for SR.
EUROPEAN PATENTS
In 2009, 3 European applications were filed.
1 871 translations of European patent specifications were published in the Slovak Republic during the year 2009, that is more than 8.4 % in comparison with the previous year.
UTILITY MODELS
There were 331 utility model applications filed in the Office in 2009. This number increased by 1.5 % in comparison with the previous year. The number of applications filed by the Slovak applicants decreased by 5.6 % (237 applications). The share of Slovak applicants in total number of 331 applications is 71.6 %.
Increase of 145.1 % occurred in number of registered utility models (250).
On December 31, 2009, there were 1 556 valid utility models in the Slovak Republic.
For comparison here is the statistics on filed patent applications, on granted patents, on filed utility model applications, on registered utility models and also translations of European patent specifications in 2005-2009:
Patentandutilitymodelstatistics_2009.doc
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