EP Validation in the CZ and SK
Carefree validation of your European patents
All EP validation services in CZ and SK in one place:
- we take care of all administrative work – relevant deadlines monitoring, necessary documents filing and communication with the authorities
- Thanks to our experience with intellectual property protection and the biggest team of Czech and European patent attorneys, we oversee the quality of your validated rights
- we timely alert you about the payment of maintenance fees (annuities) for your entire portfolio
Translations of patent applications are done by our in-house translation team – which easily handles translations from English, German, French, Spanish, Slovak or Czech.
Official EP validation fees
Czech Republic
Official fees for patent validation in the Czech Republic are:
- 80 EUR (standard period)
- 120 EUR (extended period)
The costs needed for the translation must also be added to the official fees. This is individual and depends, for example, on the language of the translation and the length of the patent application.
Ask for a cost estimate
Slovakia
Official fees for patent validation in Slovakia are:
- 58 EUR (standard period)
- 162 EUR (extended period
The costs needed for the translation must also be added to the official fees. This is individual and depends, for example, on the language of the translation and the length of the patent application.
Ask for a cost estimateAre you interested in carefree validation in the Czech Republic and Slovakia?
Your advantage
You often ask:
The duration of patent validation in the Czech Republic varies, however, it usually takes several weeks from the application filing.
The main milestones are filing an application with the Czech Industrial Property Office (Czech IPO), formal evaluation of the application, verifying whether the required documents are complete, and issuing a decision on patent validation.
In order to validate a patent in the Czech Republic, an application must be filed with the Czech Industrial Property Office (Czech IPO).
It is necessary to comply with the formal requirements, such as filing the translation of the disclosure and patent claims into Czech and payment of the associated official fee.
It is also important to ensure that the application is filed within 3 months since the grant of the European patent.
For your granted European patent to be valid in the selected territories, it must be validated in each country separately.
This process requires meeting several conditions and deadlines.
For validation of a patent in the Czech Republic and Slovakia it is necessary:
- To apply for validation within 3 months since the grant of the patent
- To file a translation of the disclosure into the official language (Czech/Slovak)
How does our collaboration work?
You inform us in writing
where do you want to validate (Czech Republic/Slovakia)
We send you the required documents
which we will need to supplement, along with a cost estimate.
We prepare the documents for filing
we translate the patent applications and handle all administration associated with validation.
We will contact you before the next annual period
and renew your rights, if you decide so.
The validation process will be handled by
Martin Hudoba
Head of Translation & Validation Services
martin.hudoba@patententer.cz+420 799 539 949
