National Application

The applicant can apply the invention directly in any state in which he wants to have the invention protected. This is necessary in each state to choose a representative who is authorized to represent the applicant before the competent authority, to translate the description of the invention, patent claims and abstract in the official language of this office and pay the fees.

To register a patent you apply by patent application filed on the prescribed form of the Industrial Property Office (IPO), where one can also obtain the form for free. In addition to this completed application form for granting of a patent application in duplicate, contains a description of the invention, at least one patent claim, or drawings and abstracts.

The invention must be explained in the application so clearly and completely so that an expert could carry it out and from the perspective of effects of a patent it should also be clearly and precisely distinguished what the patent protects. The patent claims must contain clear and concise definition of the object to be protected by patent. In the abstract, which is used mainly for retrieval purposes, a brief characteristic of the subject to be patented is given.

By submitting an application for a patent applicant enters a priority. This means in particular that in granting protection to the applied object or its publication in the proceedings before the patent application another applicant cannot be granted to effective protection of the same subject entered later on.

If the application does not contain clearly non patentable solution and if there are no deficiencies that would prevent its publication, the IPO publish the application after 18 months of priority and that publication of an application in the IPO Gazzette.

At the request of the applicant or another person IPO subject the application to examination to find out whether it meets the conditions for granting a patent, i.e. the condition of novelty, inventive step and industrial applicability. The request for substantive examination must be submitted no later than 36 months after filing. If the applied technical solution meets the legal requirements, IPO grant the patent for the invention.

The patent is valid for 20 years from filing patent and the patent effects occur after the date of notification of the patent in the Gazzette. After the patent granting, the IPO shall invite the patentee to pay the first maintenance fee for the current term of the patent. Fees for maintaining patents in force for the next pay period after are paid I without IPO without notice each year, always before the end of the previous year of the patent.