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Fast Tack - patents
Innovation needs speed! Patent granted within 24 months of filing a patent application
Scheme of the accelerated procedure for the procedure for the patent application
- filing of a patent application without fundamental deficiencies together with a request for a search within the priority period*
- conducting a search within the priority period within 9 months from the filing of the patent application (the Office is not obliged to conduct a search within the priority period if it has invited the applicant to eliminate formal deficiencies in the application or to respond to the discovery of certain substantive deficiencies)
- filing of a request for early publication* and a request for a full search* within 10 months from the filing of the patent application
- publication of the application
- performance of a full search
- issuance of a decision on the grant of a patent
* Applications are charged according to the administrative fee schedule.
Conditions for granting the patent within 24 months of the filing of the application
Currently, the average length of the patent granting procedure is 3-5 years. On the basis of patent applications that do not contain any fundamental formal deficiencies at the time of filing and whose subject matter is inventions whose patentability is not in dispute (they are new, involve an inventive step and are industrially applicable), it is possible, after fulfilling the conditions set out below, to grant a patent within 24 months of filing the patent application.
The conditions for the accelerated procedure are:
- a search has been carried out on the subject matter of the patent application within the priority period,
- the applicant, within 10 months from the filing of the application, files a request for early publication of the application and pays the relevant administrative fee,
- the applicant, within 10 months from the filing of the application, files a request for a full examination of the application and pays the relevant administrative fee,
- the search carried out within the priority period and the supplementary search carried out within the full examination of the application do not reveal any prior art that would indicate that the subject matter of the application does not meet the conditions for the grant of a patent.
There is no separate fee for the grant of a patent within the shortened 24-month period.
Charging for accelerated proceedings
There is no separate fee for the grant of a patent within the reduced 24-month period.