Trade marks and designs

• Filing an application for registration of a trademark in the register is made through the electronic form of the Office of the Slovak Republic on the electronic services portal https://mef.indprop.gov.sk
• The applicant or the applicant's representative has an electronic mailbox at slovensko.sk activated for delivery.
• The fee shall be duly paid by bank transfer no later than three working days from the date of dispatch of the acknowledgement of submission containing the payment details.
• When preparing the application, the applicant or the applicant's representative shall create a list of goods and services using the application at the following address: https://www.ezts.sk
• If priority is claimed in the application, the priority document must be part of the application filed.

If all the above conditions are met, our colleagues will examine the application within a short period of time and if they do not find any formal or material defects, e.g. that the applied sign is not distinctive or is contrary to good morals, or if no objections to the registration are filed, such application will be published in the Bulletin of the Office of the Slovak Republic, as a rule, within 30 working days from the date of its filing.

In the event of non-compliance with the established conditions of the accelerated procedure for the publication of a trade mark application, the Industrial Property Office of the Slovak Republic cannot guarantee that the publication of the trade mark application will be carried out within the aforementioned time limit.

The accelerated procedure can be verified in the web register of the Office by clicking on the protocol of the respective application. If the log shows the entry "instruction for publication" within 15 working days of the filing of the application, it means that the application in question has fulfilled the conditions of the accelerated procedure for publication of a trade mark application and, if no objections or comments against the registration are filed after the date of publication of the application in the Journal of the Office within the statutory period of three months from the date of publication, such an application will be entered in the trade mark register much more quickly compared to other applications.

Since the main function of a trade mark is to distinguish goods and services coming from different entities, it is necessary to indicate in the application for registration of the trade mark the specific goods or services for which the trade mark is to be registered.

The list of goods and services must be drawn up in accordance with the International Classification of Goods and Services currently in force for the purposes of registration of the trade mark. In order to speed up the registration procedure, the applicant may use the online application for the creation of the list of goods and services located on the external website https://www.ezts.sk

In order to make the publication of a trade mark application as soon as possible, as a rule within 30 working days of the filing of the application, and at the same time as securely as possible, the following conditions must be fulfilled.

• The application for registration of the trade mark in the Register must be submitted via the electronic form of the Office of the SR on the electronic services portal https://mef.indprop.gov.sk
• The applicant or his representative must have an electronic mailbox on the slovensko.sk portal activated for delivery.
• The applicant shall use the tool available at https://www.ezts.sk to draw up the list of goods and services, which is a legal condition of the application.
• The administrative fee for the filing of the application shall be paid by bank transfer within a period of no later than three working days from the date on which the Office sends the applicant/representative a confirmation of the filing of the application.
• Payment shall be made by entering the payment details communicated to the applicant in the acknowledgement of the filing of the application, as soon as the application has been received by the Office.
• If the applicant will claim in his application the right of priority from the first application for a trade mark under the International Convention, he must submit a document proving this fact together with the application.

Once these steps have been completed, the examiners will examine the application within a very short time and, if the application fulfils all the statutory conditions for publication, the Office will issue an order for publication of the application within 15 working days from the date of filing of the application, which will be the trigger for subsequent processing of the application for publication in the Bulletin of the Office of Trade Marks and Designs.

The fast-track procedure can be verified in the Authority's web register by clicking on the relevant application log. If the log shows the entry "instruction for publication" within 15 working days of the filing of the application, this means that the application in question has fulfilled the conditions of the accelerated procedure for the publication of a trade mark application, and if no observations or objections to registration are filed after the date of publication of the application in the Office's Bulletin within the statutory time limit of three months after publication, such application will be entered in the trade mark register much more quickly compared to other applications.

• Podmienky zrýchleného postupu konania o prihláške ochrannej známky (Conditions for the accelerated procedure for the application for a trade mark)

• Proces konania o zápise ochranných známok - Fast Track (Trademark Registration Process - Fast Track)