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Merely 218 applications for industrial designs filed with the Office in 2004 is in total 9.9 % decrease in comparison with 2003. From the foreign applicants the most active are Germans (33), Czechs (26) and Dutch (10).
Although the Slovak applicants filed by 13 applications less than in 2003. Share of domestic application makes 54 %.
On December 31, 2004 there were 1,677 valid industrial designs in the Slovak Republic.
For the comparison we provide statistics of the years 1999 - 2004 in industrial design area:
designs_tab.doc - Statistical data of industrial designs
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