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- Registered utility models with change (Y2)
- Corrections of patent documents (A8, A9, B8, B9, U8, U9, Y8, Y9, T8, T9)
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- license offers to patent applications and granted patents
- withdrawals of licence license offers to patent applications and granted patents
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- license offers to European patents and European patent applications
- withdrawals of licence license offers to European patents and European patent applications
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- license offers to requests for granting the supplementary protection certificate and the supplementary protection certificate
- withdrawals of licence license offers to requests for granting the supplementary protection certificate and the supplementary protection certificate
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Freely accessible national databases are:
- "Data extracted from Registers" http://registre.indprop.gov.sk/registre/?lang=en also called "Webregisters" give public access to data extracted from patent, utility models, European patents with designation for SK, supplementary protection certificates (SPCs) registers, which are kept by the Office with the possibility of simple and advanced search or browsing results. Data concerning in particular pending patent, utility model and SPC applications, all filed applications or granted patents, SPCs and registered utility models in the register are daily updated.
- “Patent documents of the IPO SR” - SK and CS patent documents including bibliographic data and also complete patent documents, utility models documents and European patents documents with designation of SR
http://data.indprop.gov.sk/Patenty/index.php?jazyk=sk&typdokumentu=patenty&new=1 a patent documents in the system Espacenet Level I http://sk.espacenet.com/
- “Classification Systems” http://www.upv.sk/?systemy-triedenia contains patent classifications used in Slovakia and abroad http://www.upv.sk/?systemy-triedenia-patenty
including various additional information.
- Official Gazette "Vestník ÚPV SR" may be viewed on the address http://www.upv.sk/?official-gazette - each issue is available as a one PDF file containing the whole issue. At the same time it is divided into PDF files containing only selected parts of the gazette, e.g.: patents, designs, trademarks or official announcements. In the archive on this webpage are available the previous volumes also in PDF format. The older volumes are gradually being added.
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Internal databases: coverage, updates, interlinks with external sources
The IPO SR maintains the online database of patents, utility models and supplementary protection certificates necessary for searches and proceedings on patent applications, utility model applications and requests for granting and extension of the validity of supplementary protection certificates. Selected data are available to public on the internet http://www.upv.sk/?databases-and-registers.
Establishment and maintenance of electronic search file: file building, updating, storage, documents from other offices included in the search file
Administrative management electronic systems (register, legal status, statistics, and administrative support)
Other matters
V. PROMOTION ACTIVITIES AIMED TO SUPPORT USERS IN ACCESS AND EFFICIENT USE OF PATENT INFORMATION
Patent library: equipment, collection management, network of patent libraries in the country, cooperation with foreign patent libraries
Publications related to different business procedures and patent information sources available to users, for example, books, brochures, Internet publications, etc.
Office's initiatives on providing foreign patent information in the local language(s) (e.g., machine translation tools, translation of abstracts)
Cooperation with universities, research centers, technology and innovation support centers, etc.
Education and training: training courses, e-learning modules (URLs), seminars, exhibitions, etc.
Other activities
VI. INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION ACTIVITIES IN THE FIELD OF PATENT INFORMATION
The Office builds, keeps and completes regularly the examination file containing national patent applications, utility model applications, requests for granting supplementary protection certificates, granted patents, registered utility models, granted supplementary protection certificates and translations of European patents and patent claims of European patent applications with designation for the Slovak Republic via the internet system INVENTIO II. Selected data are available to public in webregisters and are updated daily.
It is possible to carry out searches according to bibliographic data in all the databases used for granted patents, published patent applications, registered utility models, utility model applications, European patents with designation for SK and supplementary protection certificates.
The patent documentation search file used by the patent examiners and the technical public contains patent documents from 26 countries, the EPO, the WIPO and the OAPI, patent gazettes from 35 countries, including the EPO and the WIPO and the non-patent literature (21 titles of technical periodicals and 9 553 titles of special literature).
Updating of patent documentation search file is performed regularly according to current technical possibilities.
The basis of the patent fund forms the collection stored on the paper medium (cca 10 millions documents). However the majority of the patent documentation is currently received on electronic carriers. In 2014 the regular annual accession of optical discs reached410pieces of optical discs with full texts and bibliographic information concerning the patent documents.
IPO SR is maintaining the patent documentation collection stored in paper form, which forms, as a part of PCT minimum documentation, the basis of search files within the range:
- from 1950 to 1992: the documentation DD (from 1958), DE (from 1951), CH (from 1944), FR (from 1945), GB (from 1967), PL (from 1963), SU (from 1941), US (from 1960) and the documentation EPO (from 1978) a WIPO (from 1978)
- from 1919 to the present: national documentation SK and formal CS
- from 1993 to the present: national documentation CZ
In the past the Office had received patent documents stored on optical discs from following countries: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Denmark, Germany, France, Georgia, Italy, Japan, Canada, China, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Romania, Russia, Switzerland, Slovenia, Spain, Czech Republic, Ukraine, Hungary, United States of America, United Kingdom and from international organisations EPO, OAPI and WIPO. In 2014 the patent documents collection was supplemented by documents stored on optical discs from these states: Austria, Canada, China, Denmark, Japan, Republic of Korea, Slovenia, United Kingdom and EPO.
Patent and utility model gazettes form also part of the available search files of the Office. In 2014, within the frame of mutual exchange, the IPO SR continued in receiving gazettes from the following states and organizations: Bulgaria, Germany, Kyrgyzstan, Ukraine and EPO.
The collection of search CD-ROMs:
ESPACE – ACCESS EP – A (1997-2013)
ESPACE – ACCESS EP – B (1994-2013)
ESPACE – UK (1979-2013)
ESPACE – AT – A (1990-2013)
ESPACE – AT – B (1990-2013)
ESPACE – DK – B (1990-2013)
ESPACE – DK – C (1990-2013)
ESPACE – SI (1993-2013)
ESPACE-ES (1990-2010)
ESPACE-BENELUX (BE-A, LU-A, NL-A, NL-C) (1991-2011)
ESPACE-CH (1990-2008)
Patent Applications of Canada – CA – A (1999-2013)
Granted Patents of Canada – CA – B (2000-2013)
KPA (Korean patent abstracts) (2007-2013)
Chinese Patent Bibliography Abstract (1985-2013)
DEPAROM-U (1995-2011)
DEPAROM-ACT (1995-2011)
COSMOS FR-A (1992-2010)
COSMOS FR-B (2000-2010)
ESPACE – ACCESS – EPC (EUROPE) (2005-2009)
ESPACE – FIRST (1978-2009)
ESPACE – WO (2000-2009)
ESPACE – PRECES (1993-2008)
ESPACE – ACCESS – PRECES (1993-2008)
ESPACE – ACCESS – RUSSIA (1924-2004)
ESPACE – BULLETIN (2009)
PAJ (Patent Abstracts of Japan) (1976-2013)
GlobalPat (1971-2000)
USAPat (1994-2011)
USAApp (2001-2011)
Administrative management electronic systems (register, legal status, statistics, and administrative support)
Official automated system for managing the industrial property subjects “INVENTIO”contains registers of patents, European patents with designation for SK, utility models, supplementary protection certificates and PCT registry (data since 1993 – patents, data since 2003 - European patents with designation for SK, data since 1992 – utility models, data since 2002 - supplementary protection certificates and data since 1995 – PCT applications filed with IPO SR as a receiving office).
Administrative management system is based on Lotus Domino and Fabasoft eGov Suite.
Other matters
V. PROMOTION ACTIVITIES AIMED TO SUPPORT USERS IN ACCESS AND EFFICIENT USE OF PATENT INFORMATION
Patent library: equipment, collection management, network of patent libraries in the country, cooperation with foreign patent libraries
In 2014, the Office’s reading room has been visited by 1 006 users. In total there were provided 5 428 borrowings of patent and other literature made available to the public and 2 169 copies of patent documents and other industrial property documents for the manual and computer search purposes, as well as copies from technical periodicals and other associated and non-patent literature were made. In 2014 there were performed 37 patent searches and 92 searches on bibliographic data.
The Office’s reading room serves as a WIPO deposit library as well. The deposit library fund includes 211 volumes of publications issued by WIPO, which are available for study in reading room.
The Office’s reading room including the search workstation opens daily from 9:00 to 15:00.
Collecting, acquisitions, preparation
In the last year were processed 3 194 patent documents in paper form and 410 optical discs containing full texts and bibliographic information relating to patent documents as well to made them available for search purposes. The entire acquisition of patent documents amounted to 1 834 079 documents, out of which 1 830 885 entries represented documents in electrical form.
The patent literature (patent documentation and official gazettes) were acquired within the frame of mutual exchange and the non-patent literature mostly by purchase or as a gift.
A list of the complete patent documentation was regularly updated on the Office’s web site. Non-patent literature was processed, stored according to librarian rules and made available via in-house database system “Knižnica” to the staff.
Patent Information Centres and Contact and Information Points
Since 2003 the Office has established 10 contact and information points, while four of them are the Patent Information Centres. They are located in state, regional and district libraries as well as in the Slovak National Library (SNK) in Martin and Centre of Scientific and Technical Information (CVTI) in Bratislava. A list of centres and points is available on the Office’s web site http://www.upv.sk/?partners.
The main goal of patent information centres is to provide complex information services in the field of patent, trademark and industrial design information, search services, consultation and methodical assistance concerning the searching of information, making copies of required patent documents, printing records from electronic form etc. Every patent information centre serve as a contact and information point.
The main goal of contact and information points of the Office is to inform the public about where can apply for protection of the results of creative activity, and particularly to inform the general public about the existence of the national institution, which protects immaterial goods, industrial property.
The Office supported the activity of centres and contact and information points by regular sending Slovak patent specifications in paper form and the Official Gazette in electronic form, as well as all information materials and resources made available to the public, publications published by Office, information pamphlets, documents and forms relating to applying for protection of industrial property rights, access to office¢s databases via Internet etc.
Information and Advisory Points for Innovations (InnoInfo)
The mission of InnoInfo centres http://www.upv.sk/?information-and-advisory-points-for-innovation-innoinfo operating in the regions of Slovakia is to orientate especially the small and medium sized entrepreneurs in the field of innovations and industrial property. InnoInfo centres are established in business incubators, regional advisory and information centres, regional chambers of the Slovak Chamber of Commerce and Industry and at the Universities of technical orientation.
The Office cooperated most actively with the University Technological Incubator of the Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, the Technical University in Košice and also with Banská Bystrica Regional Chamber of the Slovak Chamber of Commerce and Industry. The cooperation with the Slovak Library of Forestry and Wood Sciences, TU Zvolen, with the Technical University in Zvolen and with the Faculty of Mass Media Communication, UCM Trnava has been developing in a promising way.
Publications related to different business procedures and patent information sources available to users, for example, books, brochures, Internet publications, etc.
The Office publishes classifications, miscellanies, expert monographs, acts and related commentaries, promotional and information brochures, leaflets or translations of the WIPO and the EPO original publications providing valuable information on industrial property field to public.
Publication activities of the Office during 2014 include:
- Annual Report of the Industrial Property Office of SR 2013 – for the 4th time in the electronic version (on the CD); on the website www.upv.sk also web version of the annual report 2013 is available;
- Magazine Duševné Vlastníctvo 1 – 4/ 2014 – for the 1st time four issues of the Magazine in the electronic version; 5th issue is printed. Printed issue Duševné vlastníctvo – Selection 2014 consisted of the selected last-year´s core author articles supplemented by a Section From Decisions of the IPO SR and From the Gallery of Creators.
For more information please see the list of publications issued by the Office http://www.upv.sk/?publikacie
WEBSITE OF THE OFFICE – WWW.UPV.SK
The Office also in 2014 continued in updating the website daily to provide visitors new information on IP, the Office´s activities, to inform about upcoming conferences or other events and updated information on all relevant web sites within the whole website.
There were 147,080 visitors of the website recorded in 2014; the average number of users was 430 during working days and 161 during weekends. Trade Marks (110,262), Patents (45,165), Registers and Databases (40,633), Utility Models (18,232) and Contacts (17,412) were the most visited sites. 65.8 per cent of visits were from Slovakia, 5.94 per cent from the Czech Republic and the rest 28.26 per cent from abroad.
WWW.PATENTOVAT.SK
Since 2011 the Office has been using the internet portal – www.patentovat.sk – to increase the awareness on IP and its protection. The internet portal is intended for the general public and in a popularisation way provides information on industrial property protection and related services and products of the Office. It also responds to new trends in the promotion of intellectual property protection, particularly through information technologies, and in addition to the official website of the Office www.upv.sk it is also linked to the social network Facebook.
Office's initiatives on providing foreign patent information in the local language(s) (e.g., machine translation tools, translation of abstracts)
Cooperation with universities, research centers, technology and innovation support centers, etc.
Two specialised seminars took place in Nitra in 2014. The Industrial Property Office of SR in cooperation with the Regional Chamber of SCCI in Nitra organised the seminar Intellectual Property Rights to Results of Technical Creative Activities on May 14, 2014, and the seminar Industrial Property Rights to a Sign on May 27, 2014. In November 2014 the IPO SR in cooperation with WIPO, Trnava University in Trnava and Slovak Centre of the Scientific and Technical Information organised the 6th International Conference IP Protection at Universities. The Conference was aimed particularly at increasing the IP awareness, copyright protection and strategic using of IP.
Education and training: training courses, e-learning modules (URLs), seminars, exhibitions, etc.
The Office also in 2014 continued in education on IP protection importance for pupils of elementary and secondary schools and also for academic community and entrepreneurs. 22 lectures were organised for elementary and secondary schools in 2014; 11 of them were associated with the excursion of the Office. The great interest was also in lectures for universities students and business community, for which 18 lectures took place.
IPO SR continued the education programme Intellectual Property accredited by the Ministry of Education of the SR also last year. From September 2013 to May 2014 the education programme in the Module D – Industrial Property Law - was running. 46 participants entered the education programme. 43 participants terminated the study by final examinations of the Module Industrial Property Law in May 2014. Last year the IPO SR submitted the project of two-year four-module education programme Intellectual Property to the Accreditation Commission of the Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Sport of SR, which approved it on April 30, 2014 and the Office got the accreditation for another 5 years.
Active participation in fairs and exhibitions is another form to provide information and consultations on IP protection by the Office experts. In 2014 the Office participated in three international fairs: CONECO in Bratislava, Furniture and Living in Nitra and International Engineering Fair in Nitra.
During the 4th year of the job fair JobExpo 2014 and also the 22nd year of the sales and presentation exhibition of products made by students of training colleges Young Creator 2014 the Office representatives provided information on IP protection to wide and professional public. The Office also participated in the 8th European science festival – Researchers´ Night; it had its expositions in Banská Bystrica and Košice.
In the course of 2014 there were four exhibitions installed progressively in the access premises of the IPO SR:
• From Talent to Patent – the Exhibition of the works of students of the Design Department, Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava, and children from villages Píla and Žarnovica;
• The exhibition of the most successful works of the 4th year of the International Biennial Competition LOGO 2014;
• An exhibition dedicated to the 95th Anniversary of the Patent Office in Prague;
• The exhibition of collection items of the Trade Museum.
Other activities
The World Intellectual Property Day
http://www.indprop.gov.sk/?aktivity-upv-sr-pre-msp
On April 24, 2014 the Industrial Property Office of SR celebrated the World Intellectual Property Day (WIPD). The vernissage of the exhibition - From Talent to Patent - of the works of students of the Design Department, Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava, and of children from not large villages Píla and Žarnovica - was the part of the opening of the WIPD in the IPO SR.
It has become a good habit that the IPO SR organises also the Conference Intellectual Property in Slovakia within the WIPD. The 14th Conference with the motto The Mastery to Be Different was aimed at increasing the public awareness, particularly of businesses and customers, on the importance of branding and design in a competitive environment.
Ján Bahýľ Award
The ceremonial awarding of the Ján Bahýľ Award, the goal of which is to motivate and support the creativity in Slovakia, took place in Banská Bystrica on October 2, 2014. There were three categories of the Ján Bahýľ Award:
- Middle-sized and large enterprises with 50 employees and more;
- Individual applicants, small and micro enterprises up to 49 employees;
- Universities and research centres.
The IPO SR President in accordance with the recommendation of the 6-member evaluation committee of the Ján Bahýľ Award awarded three main prizes of the Ján Bahýľ Award 2014 represented by the bronze medal with the portrait of the constructor and helicopter inventor, author and owner of awarded technical and design solutions. The IPO SR President also awarded four honourable mentions.
VI. INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION ACTIVITIES IN THE FIELD OF PATENT INFORMATION
International exchange and sharing of patent information in machine-readable form, e.g., priority documents, bibliographic data, abstracts, search reports, full text information
Bibliographic data and abstracts of the published patent and utility model applications, granted patents and registered utility models in English were supplied to the Espacenet and INPADOC database in electronic form.
The Office sent the copies of patent documents in electronic form monthly within the bilateral cooperation with the European Patent Office related to patent information. The data were subsequently provided for the database Espacenet – administered by the EPO – freely accessible to public in Slovak language on the address http://sk.espacenet.com/ and European patent translations into the Slovak language were used for corpus of language necessary for realisation of another project of bilateral cooperation – Patent Translate.
In 2014 continued the mutual exchange of official gazettes between the IPO SR and other offices also international organisations, including the EPO and the WIPO.
Priority documents have been supplied to applicants on request in paper form.International exchange and sharing of patent information in machine-readable form, e.g., priority documents, bibliographic data, abstracts, search reports, full text information
Participation in international or regional activities and projects related to patent information
Participation in the project of the Federative Patent Register conducted by the European Patent Office.
Participation in PATLIB 2014 Conference.
Participation in the meeting EPN – patent classification.
Participation in the meeting PATLIB Committee 2015.
Participation in the EPO Patent Information Conference in Warsaw.
Participation in the EPN Workshop on Machine Translation and Data Acquisition based on Quality at Source.
Assistance to developing countries
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