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By virtue of the amendmentof the Innovation Act in 2012, HIPO has also had competence for the qualification of R&D activities since 1 February 2012. This task means, on the one hand, preliminary qualification, which can be initiated optionally and on a voluntary basis by enterprises, and, on the other hand, giving expert opinions on professional questions affecting the qualification of certain activites activities as R&D upon the requests received from the National Tax and Customs Administration (NTCA), other authorities and courts as well as third parties.
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The principal aim of the establishment of the VPI is to offer for the inventors and enterprises of the participating and certain neighbouring countries the use of the system of the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT), managed by WIPO and extending to 148 countries and to join the global paten patent system under more advantageous conditions. It is expected that the VPI will encourage and stimulate innovation and creativity, in addition it will facilitate the economic growth and will improve competitiveness in Central and Eastern Europe. It will also be possible that the patent applicants of the participating countries can file international patent applications in their mother language, and their questions arising during the process can be answered in their mother language. The search and examination reports of the VPI related to patentability (due to the available fee discounts) will be more cost effective.
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[1] Source of the data of WIPO: http://ipstats.wipo.int/ipstatv2/searchForm
[2] Source of the data of EPO: http://www.epo.org/about-us/annual-reports-statistics/annual-report/2014.html
[3] Source of the data on international (under the Madrid system) trade mark applications: http://www.wipo.int/madrid/en/statistics/annual_stats.jsp?type=EN&name=3
The Hungarian applicants have the possibility to file their applications initiated under international or regional cooperation through the HIPO. In 2014 they filed 129 PCT applications (at the same time European patent applications), 11 European patent applications, 25 Community and 276 international trade mark applications this way.
Main figures of the activities of Hungarian applicants abroad (2010-2014)
| 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 |
PCT applications | 172 | 142 | 162 | 163 | 158 |
European patent applications | 192 | 168 | 188 | 196 | 190 |
The number of protections valid in Hungary, which should be taken into account by Hungarian organisations in their research and development and economic activities, increased almost in every title of protection. Due to the increase of the number of European patents valid in Hungary, the number of valid patents grew above 20 thousand. A significant increase can be observed in respect of every title of Community industrial property protections.
PATENT ACTIVITY
The number of international patent (PCT) applications was more than 213 thousand in 2014, which may result requests for extension to the territory of Hungary in a later phase of the procedure, when entering the national phase. The number of actual national requests deriving from earlier PCT designations was 31 in 2014. Since Hungary’s accession to the European Patent Convention in 2003 foreign patent applicants have submitted their increasing requests for validating their European patents in Hungary rather by choosing the European route. The number of these requests was around 3000 (3323), similarly to the previous years. This sudden stop of the continuous increase observed in the previous years may be explained by the waiting attitude of the applicants due to the introduction of the European patent with unitary effect expected in 2016.
Main figures of patent cases aimed at Hungary and filed following the national route – from Hungary and directly from abroad – under
international cooperations cooperation (2010-2014)
| 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | ||
Cases filed under international cooperation |
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PCT designations | 164 341 | 182 437 | 195 334 | 205 270 | 213 568 | ||
Granted European patents designating HU | 32 803 | 40 372 | 47 485 | 53 486 | 56 021 | ||
Filing of the translation of the text of European patent (validation) | 2 635 | 3 218 | 3 342 | 3 485 | 3 323 | ||
Filing of the translation of European claims | 8 | 11 | 1 | 3 | 8 | ||
Cases filed following the national route |
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Domestic applications | 646 | 660 | 689 | 641 | 546 | ||
Foreign applications filed following the national route | 44 | 33 | 54 | 60 | 42 | ||
Requests for actual national procedure deriving from earlier PCT designations | 11 | 5 | 5 | 7 | 31 | ||
Total number of applications filed following the national route | 701 | 698 | 748 | 708 | 619 | ||
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Certified statements on the validity of protection can be available on payment of a fee.
Other sources
IV. ICT SUPPORT TO SERVICES AND ACTIVITIES RELATED TO PATENT INFORMATION CARRIED OUT BY THE OFFICE
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The Unified Administrative System of the Office is used for file building, which covers all industrial property titles of protection. It has a real-time update system and has a daily backup storage.
Other matters
V. PROMOTION ACTIVITIES AIMED TO SUPPORT USERS IN ACCESS AND EFFICIENT USE OF PATENT INFORMATION
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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.
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Other activities
VI. INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION ACTIVITIES IN THE FIELD OF PATENT INFORMATION
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Assistance to developing countries
Other activities
VII. OTHER RELATED MATTERS
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