Patents

Head I

1. Application fee for filing an international PCT application	66 €
2. Fee for the priority document	20 €
3. For acts of the Office in connection with the late submission of the translation	130 €
4. For acts of the Office relating to late payment of the international filing and international search fee	50% international filing fee
5. For sending the archival and search copy to the International Bureau of the World Intellectual Property Organization if the Bureau is not the competent receiving office	30 €
6. For the acts of the Office connected with the restoration of the right of priority	166 €

The applicant shall pay the application fee within one month of the filing of the international application. In the case of electronic filing, the administrative fees shall be reduced by 50 %.

The administration fees (application fee for filing an international PCT application with the Office of the Industrial Property of the Slovak Republic, fee for the priority document) shall be paid by transfer from an account in a monetary institution or by postal order to the deposit account of the Industrial Property Office of the Slovak Republic in Banská Bystrica (hereinafter referred to as "the Office") kept in the State Treasury. On the payment document please indicate:

      IBAN - SK49 8180 0000 0070 0006 0750

     BIC (SWIFT): SPSRSKBA      

     Constant symbol - 0558

Variable symbol

The variable symbol is the identification of the payment. The variable symbol is always made up of a ten-digit numeric code.

This code for international PCT applications starts from the left with the one-digit prefix 3. For example:

Fees for the production of priority documents shall be payable on written demand by the Authority and shall be payable within 15 days from the date of receipt of such demand.

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

For more detailed information on the composition of the variable symbol (Podrobnejšie informácie o zložení variabilného symbolu).

¹The international filing fee is reduced by the following amount if the international application is filed in accordance with the administrative directives:

1. in electronic form: 207 €,
2. in electronic form, where the text of the description, claims and annotation is coded in character format: 311 €

²If the international application is filed by a natural person, the international filing fee shall be reduced by 90 %. Only the applicant who is the sole and beneficial owner at the time of filing is entitled to the above reduction and is not obliged to assign, grant, transfer or license to another party who is not entitled to the fee reduction. If there is more than one applicant, all applicants must meet the above criteria.

The international filing fee + EUR 0,05 (foreign bank fee) must be paid by the applicant within one month from the date of filing of the international PCT application.

The international search fee + EUR 0,05 (foreign bank fee) must be paid by the applicant within one month of the date of filing of the PCT international application at the receiving office.

The international filing fee and the search fee shall be paid to the Office of the Slovak Republic to the following account set up by the Treasury:

Account number:	IBAN:SK96 8180 0000 0070 0006 0777
	SWIFT: SPSRSKBA