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Slovakia passed a new industrial property law on April 29, 1993, which includes all substantive provisions of the original Slovak trademark law. The current law also includes the Trademark Law No. 55/1997, which came into effect on March 1, 1997.
The Slovak Republic has submitted a declaration to the World Intellectual Property Organization stating that all treaties managed by the World Intellectual Property Organization, which Czechoslovakia joined on January 1, 1993, will continue to apply in the Slovak Republic, including the World Intellectual Property Organization, the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property, the Madrid Agreement on the International Registration of Marks, the Madrid Protocol, the Treaty on the Law of Marks, the Lisbon Agreement, and the Nice Agreement on the International Classification of Goods and Services used for the Registration of Marks. The Slovak Republic joined the Madrid Protocol on September 13, 1997 and is a member of both the Agreement and the Protocol.
2. The official language is Slovak.
3. Slovak trademarks adopt the Nice classification and accept multiple types of applications. The elements that can be registered as trademarks include: text, letters, numbers, graphics, three-dimensional identifiers, etc.
4. All registered categories include commodity trademarks, service trademarks, and collective trademarks;
Slovak trademark registration can be processed through "single country registration," "EU registration," or "Madrid international registration.
The trademark is valid for 10 years from the date of application; Renewal can be processed within 12 months before the expiration date, with a grace period of 6 months (with additional fees) and a validity period of 10 years.
If a trademark has not been used for five consecutive years, an application for revocation can be filed.
1. Applicant's name and address
2. Goods or services
3. Trademark design
4. Power of Attorney
5. To submit priority, proof of priority and corresponding Slovak translation documents are required
Application acceptance review announcement approval issuance.
Submit application documents to the Slovak Industrial Property Office;
The examiner will conduct a formal and substantive examination of the application to confirm whether the application documents are complete and whether the applied trademark meets the basic registration requirements; If the review fails, a rejection notice will be issued and a response will be required within the specified time;
Once the review is approved, an announcement will be arranged, and the objection period will be 3 months from the announcement date;
If there are no objections or objections are not established during the announcement period, the trademark will be approved for registration and a trademark registration certificate will be issued to the applicant.
