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PATENTS
There were 242 patent applications filed in 2008 that is decrease by 29.9 % in comparison with the year 2007. The PCT applications form 14.9 % (36) of all applications.
The number of applications filed by domestic applicants (167) has decreased by 30.1 %, and the applications filed by the foreign applicants (75) also decreased by 29.2 %. The largest share in the number of patent application filed by foreign applicants (75) have the the USA (14), Japan (10) and the Czech Republic (17).
In the year 2008, 11 European applications were filed.
566 patents were granted that is decrease by 1.4 % in comparison with the year 2007.
There were 14 application of SPC's filed in 2008. All of them are from foreign applicants, the most number is from the USA - 5, from Germany - 3 applications and from United Kingdom -3 applications. There were 16 SPC's granted.
On December 31, 2008 there were 4,399 valid patents in the Slovak Republic.
EUROPEAN PATENTS
1,726 translations of the European patent specifications were published in the Slovak Republic during the year 2008, that is more than 15.8 % in comparison with the previous year.
UTILITY MODELS
There were 326 utility model applications filed in the Office in 2008. This number has increased by 1.6 % in comparison with the previous year. The number of applications filed by the Slovak applicants decreased by 0.4 % (251 applications). The share of the Slovak applicants in total number of 326 applications is 77 %.
Decrease of 69.3 % occurred in number of registered utility models (102).
On December 31, 2008 there were 1,617 valid utility models in the Slovak Republic.
In comparison with the statistics of the years 2002 - 2008, there are following results in patent, utility model and European patent translations area:
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