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Administrative charges - information for taxpayers

The Industrial Property Office of the Slovak Republic collects administrative fees according to the Act of the National Council of the Slovak Republic No. 145/1995 Coll. on Administrative Fees, as amended.

Fees for acts and procedures performed by the Industrial Property Office of the Slovak Republic shall be paid in euro by transfer from an account in a bank or a branch of a foreign bank, by postal order, through a certifying person or through the payment gateway of the State Treasury.

Where acts and proceedings are carried out on the basis of an application submitted by electronic means or through an integrated service point, the rate of the fee shall be 50 % of the fee determined in accordance with the scale of fees; in such cases, however, the fee shall be reduced by a maximum of EUR 70. Where annexes are included in the application, the reduced rate of fees shall apply only if those annexes are in electronic form.

The fees shall be payable on written demand by the Office and shall be payable within 15 days of the date of receipt of the demand.

In order to identify the payment, the fee payer shall enter the variable symbol indicated in the Authority's written notice.

Account for payment of administrative charges:

State Treasury Account 
Radlinského 32
810 05 Bratislava

Account name: Deposit account of the ÚPV SR BB
IBAN: SK49 8180 0000 0070 0006 0750
BIC: SPSRSKBA
Constant symbol: 0558

Account for the payment of fees payable to the European Patent Office for a European patent application:

Commerzbank AG
Promenadeplatz 7
80273 Munich, Germany
IBAN: DE20 7008 0000 0333 8800 00
BIC: DRESDEFF700

Schedule of administrative charges:

I. part	General administration (pol. 1) Všeobecná správa (pol. 1)
XVI. part	Industrial rights (pol. 214-215) Priemyselné práva (pol. 214-215)
Administrative fees	Patents (pol. 216-220) Patenty (pol. 216-220)
Administrative fees	Supplementary protection certificates (pol. 216-217) Dodatkové ochranné osvedčenia (pol. 216-217)
Administrative fees	European patents (pol. 216-217) Európske patenty (pol. 216-217)
Administrative fees	Utility models (pol. 221-223) Úžitkové vzory (pol. 221-223)
Administrative fees	Designs (pol. 224-226) Dizajny (pol. 224-226)
Administrative fees	Topography of semiconductor products (pol. 227-228) Topografie polovodičových výrobkov (pol. 227-228)
Administrative fees	Trademarks (pol. 229-232) Ochranné známky (pol. 229-232)
Administrative fees	Designations of origin and geographical indications of products (pol.233-235) Označenia pôvodu výrobkov a zemepisné označenia výrobkov (pol.233-235)