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For the Hungarian Intellectual Property Office, 2025 confirmed the growing significance of intellectual property protection within Hungary’s innovation ecosystem, as stakeholders increasingly recognize the value of intellectual assets and make more conscious and strategic use of the mechanisms available for their protection and exploitation.
The medium-term institutional strategy, adopted in 2025, reaffirmed the Office’s mission: to contribute to enhancing domestic innovation and competitiveness through strengthening the protection of intellectual property. The strategy identifies customer-centric development of services, further improving digitalisation, and strengthening of international presence as key objectives. In addition, it places emphasis on active cooperation with the stakeholders of the innovation ecosystem, particularly with universities, research institutes, and enterprises, as well as on the development of awareness-raising activities.
Important achievement of 2025 was the enhancement of international presence. The Office’s experts played an active role in European and global working groups and also contributed to shaping international policy dialogue through earning several leadership positions in such groups. International cooperation not only enhances the recognition of the Hungarian intellectual property protection system but also creates opportunities for domestic experience to be incorporated into international practice and for best practices to be introduced in Hungary.
Digital competencies and IT developments also played a decisive role in the Office’s operations. In 2025, electronic administration expanded further, with a significant proportion of submissions already being received online, enabling more efficient and customer-friendly operations. An important milestone in digitalisation, communication, and customer information was the launch of the Office’s new website, renewed both in content and appearance, providing a structured and modern platform for customers and other parties interested. In addition, new webform-based filing system, data warehouse-based reporting solution, and modern data management developments also supported efficient operations.
It gives added significance to the period under review that in 2026 HIPO celebrates the 130th anniversary of its establishment, and preparations for this event constituted a defining element of the Office’s activities in 2025.
The activity of Hungarian applicants showed growth across multiple forms of protection, while the HIPO has continued to ensure the efficient and highly professional execution of its official functions despite an increasing workload. The rise in nationally filed patent applications originating from Hungary reflects that domestic inventors, enterprises, and research institutes — and particularly universities — are paying growing attention to the legal protection of their inventions, recognizing the economic and strategic significance of patent rights.
Despite international stagnation, filing numbers in Hungary developed positively in 2025 again, as clear increase was observed in several forms of protection.
The number of patent applications filed through the national route increased by 11 %, while the number of utility model applications also increased, by 18 %, respectively.
More informations: Facts & Figures 2025 pp 9.
Industrial Property and Copyright Review: Iparjogvédelmi és Szerzői Jogi Szemle | Szellemi Tulajdon Nemzeti Hivatala
Hungarian Intellectual Property Office Annual Report: Facts & Figures 2025
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Further IT developments were initiated during the year, including the development of a new, user-friendly electronic application system aimed at simplifying the application process for customers by replacing and modernizing the existing system.
e-filing: https://ugyintezes.sztnh.gov.hu/eBej2/step1
IPform: IPForm - Szellemi Tulajdon Nemzeti Hivatala
E-dossier: http://epub.hpo.hu/e-iratbetekintes/?lang=EN
Classification: https://classifications.sztnh.gov.hu/ipc/; International Patent Classification (IPC) | Hungarian Intellectual Property Office
IP-Search: http://epub.hpo.hu/e-kutatas/?lang=EN
Form and Fees: Fees | Hungarian Intellectual Property Office
Q&A: Tudásbázis | Szellemi Tulajdon Nemzeti Hivatala
More informations: Patent | Hungarian Intellectual Property Office
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E-dossier: http://epub.hpo.hu/e-iratbetekintes/?lang=EN
IP-Search: http://epub.hpo.hu/e-kutatas/?lang=EN
Official Gazette: Gazette | Hungarian Intellectual Property Office
Databases: EPOQUENET system, EP-REG, Espacenet, Clarivate Analytics
E-dossier: http://epub.hpo.hu/e-iratbetekintes/?lang=EN
IP-Search: http://epub.hpo.hu/e-kutatas/?lang=EN
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Hungarian Intellectual Property Office Annual Report: 48-49 pp. Facts & Figures 2025
The most important IT development tasks performed in 2025 by the IT department were the following:
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Library: sztnh.gov.hu/en/services/janos-frecskay-special-library
Online catalogue: https://sztnh.opac3.monguz.hu/en/search
Publications: Publications | Hungarian Intellectual Property Office
Hungarian Intellectual Property Office Annual Report: 32-41 pp. Facts & Figures 2025
Educations and trainings: Képzések, oktatás | Szellemi Tulajdon Nemzeti Hivatala
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The Office shall not provide data to any other national office. Bibliographical data of patents are sent to WIPO and EPO.
Visegrad Patent Institute: https://vpi.int/en/
More informations: Hungarian Intellectual Property Office Annual Report pp. 32-39 Facts & Figures 2025
Note: For each Standard listed below, please enter one of the following values:
"Fully implemented"
The WIPO Standard has been implemented in a manner compliant or compatible with the Standard.
"Partially implemented"
The WIPO Standard has been implemented in part. The Office practice aligns with some, but not all, requirements of the Standard.
"On implementation phase"
The decision to implement the WIPO Standard has been made and it is currently being deployed, configured, or integrated into systems and workflows.
"Planning to implement"
The decision to implement the WIPO Standard has been made; planning activities (resource allocation, timeline development, technical design) are underway before actual implementation begins.
"On assessment phase"
The WIPO Standard is under active evaluation to determine its feasibility, technical requirements, costs, benefits, and alignment with organizational needs before making an implementation decision.
"No plan to implement"
The WIPO Standard has been reviewed and there is currently no intention or plan to implement it.
WIPO Standard ST.1: Recommendation concerning the minimum data elements required to uniquely identify a patent document
Fully implemented
WIPO Standard ST.2: Standard manner for designating calendar dates by using the Gregorian calendar
Fully implemented
WIPO Standard ST.3: Recommended standard on two-letter codes for the representation of states, other entities and intergovernmental organizations
Fully implemented
WIPO Standard ST.6: Recommendation for the numbering of published patent documents
Fully implemented
WIPO Standard ST.8: Standard recording of international patent classification (IPC) symbols on machine-readable records
No plan to implement
WIPO Standard ST.9: Recommendation concerning bibliographic data on and relating to patents and SPCs
Fully implemented
WIPO Standard ST.10: Published patent documents
No plan to implement
WIPO Standard ST.10/A: Format (margins, size) of patent documents
No plan to implement
WIPO Standard ST.10/B: Layout of bibliographic data components
No plan to implement
WIPO Standard ST.10/C: Presentation of bibliographic data components
Fully implemented
WIPO Standard ST.10/D: Guidelines on physical characteristics of patent documents particularly relevant to reproducibility and legibility of such documents
No plan to implement
WIPO Standard ST.11: Recommendation on the minimum of indexes to be inserted in patent gazettes or published in association with patent gazettes
No plan to implement
WIPO Standard ST.12: Guidelines for the preparation of abstracts of patent documents
No plan to implement
WIPO Standard ST.12/A: General guidelines for the preparation of abstracts of patent documents
No plan to implement
WIPO Standard ST.12/B: Guidelines for the preparation of categorized patent abstract
No plan to implement
WIPO Standard ST.12/C: Guidelines for the physical characteristics of separately published abstracts in selective dissemination of information (SDI) presented in the form of card files
No plan to implement
WIPO Standard ST.13: Recommendation for the numbering of applications for industrial property rights (IPRs)
Fully implemented
WIPO Standard ST.14: Recommendation for the inclusion of references cited in patent documents
No plan to implement
WIPO Standard ST.15: Guidelines for the wording of titles of inventions in patent documents
No plan to implement
WIPO Standard ST.16: Recommended standard code for the identification of different kinds of patent documents
Fully implemented
WIPO Standard ST.17: Recommendation for the coding of headings of announcements made in official gazettes
Fully implemented
WIPO Standard ST.18: Recommendation concerning patent gazettes and other patent announcement journals
Fully implemented
WIPO Standard ST.19: Recommendation for the publication of indexes issued yearly/half-yearly/quarterly by industrial property offices
No plan to implement
WIPO Standard ST.20: Recommendations for the preparation of name indexes to patent documents
No plan to implement
WIPO Standard ST.21: Recommendation concerning the reduction of volume of priority documents as filed with industrial property offices
No plan to implement
WIPO Standard ST.22: Recommendation for the authoring of patent applications for the purpose of facilitating optical character recognition (OCR)
Fully implemented
WIPO Standard ST.25: Standard for the presentation of nucleotide and amino acid sequence listings in patent applications
No plan to implement
WIPO Standard ST.26: Recommended standard for the presentation of nucleotide and amino acid sequence listings using XML (extensible markup language)
Fully implemented
WIPO Standard ST.27: Recommendation for the exchange of patent legal status data
Fully implemented
WIPO Standard ST.31: Recommended standard coded character sets for the exchange of machine-readable records of patent documents
No plan to implement
WIPO Standard ST.32: Recommendation for the markup of patent documents using SGML (standard generalized markup language)
No plan to implement
WIPO Standard ST.33: Recommended standard format for data exchange of facsimile information of patent documents
On assessment phase
WIPO Standard ST.34: Recommendation concerning the recording of application numbers in electronic form for the exchange of bibliographic data
No plan to implement
WIPO Standard ST.35: Recommended standard format for data exchange of mixed-mode published patent document information on reel-to-reel and IBM 3480/90 cartridge tapes
No plan to implement
WIPO Standard ST.36: Recommendation for the processing of patent information using XML (extensible markup language)
Fully implemented
WIPO Standard ST.37: Recommendation for an authority file of published patent documents
On implementation phase
WIPO Standard ST.40: Recommendation concerning making facsimile images of patent documents available on CD-ROM
No plan to implement
WIPO Standard ST.50: Guidelines for issuing corrections, alterations and supplements relating to patent information
Fully implemented
WIPO Standard ST.90: Recommendation for processing and communicating intellectual property data using web APIs (Application Programming Interfaces)
Fully implemented
WIPO Standard ST.91: Recommendations on digital three-dimensional (3D) models and 3D images
Fully implemented
WIPO Standard ST.92: Recommendations on the data package format for the electronic exchange of priority documents
On implementation phase
WIPO Standard ST.96: Recommendation for the processing of intellectual property information using XML (extensible markup language)
Partially implemented
WIPO Standard ST.97: Recommendation for processing of intellectual property data using JSON
No plan to implement
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