Patent Validation in the CZ and SK

Carefree validation of your patents including translation

  • We take care of all administrative work associated with patent validation in the Czech Republic and Slovakia.
  • We monitor the relevant deadlines, fill out the necessary documents and handle the communication with the authorities.
  • Thanks to our experience with intellectual property protection and our own 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 or Spanish.

Official 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 estimate
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Are you interested in carefree validation in the Czech Republic and Slovakia?

FAQ

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?

01

You inform us in writing

where do you want to validate (Czech Republic/Slovakia)

02

We send you the required documents

which we will need to supplement, along with a cost estimate.

03

We prepare the documents for filing

we translate the patent applications and handle all administration associated with validation.

04

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
References

Some of the companies that trust us with translation and validation of their rights