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Administrative charges - information for taxpayers

The Industrial Property Office of the Slovak Republic (hereinafter referred to as "the Office") 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 Office shall be paid by payment card, postal order, transfer from an account in a bank or branch of a foreign bank, or through the payment gateway of the State Treasury to an account maintained at the State Treasury and are recorded in the central system of recording fees of the State Treasury.

Where acts and proceedings are carried out on the basis of an application submitted by electronic means or through a postal company, 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 50. Where annexes are included in the application, the reduced rate of fees shall apply only if those annexes are in electronic form.

Fees are payable based on the payment order created when submitting an electronic form via the Office Electronic Services Portal, by card when submitting in person, or by written demand from the Office, which contains a payment order that is and shall be payable within 15 days of the date of receipt of the demand.

Please note that as part of the payment identification, the payer is required to enter the account number, and enter the correct E2E reference (by bank transfer from a foreign bank account) or correct variable symbol (VS, by bank transfer from a Slovak bank account). 

IF THE REFERENCE IS ENTERED INCORRECTLY OR IF THE PAYMENT IS MADE FOR AN EXPIRED PAYMENT ORDER, THE PAYMENT WILL BE RETURNED TO YOU, AND THE OFFICE WILL NOT BE NOTIFIED OF THE PAYMENT OF THE FEE.

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)