INFORMATION FROM THE CONTRACTING / EXTENSION STATES
SK Slovakia
Payment of fees in Slovakia
The Industrial Property Office of the Slovak Republic has informed us that the bank account for renewal fees and other fees concerning European patents in Slovakia as published in OJ EPO 2003, 528, has changed.
The details of the new account are as follows:
Proprietor of the account: Štátna pokladnica ("State Treasury"),
Radlinského 32, 810 05 Bratislava
Bank: Národná banka Slovenska (National Bank of Slovakia), Bratislava
International Bank Account Number (IBAN): SK 93 0720 0000 0000 0012 3852
SWIFT: NBSBSKBX
Important notice
Applicants and patent proprietors are requested to state the following details to allow proper identification of payments. Attention is drawn in particular to the fact that the account number with the State Treasury to be cited varies according to the type of payment made.
Please state with each payment of renewal fees:
- the name of the beneficiary: "Úrad priemyselného vlastníctva SR" (Industrial Property Office of the Slovak Republic),
- its account number with the "State Treasury": 7000119169/8180 (Bank code: 8180), as well as
- the "variable symbol" described below which is needed to identify the European patent application or European patent concerned.
Please state with each payment of any other fees:
- the name of the beneficiary: "Úrad priemyselného vlastníctva SR" (Industrial Property Office of the Slovak Republic),
- its account number with the "State Treasury": 7000060750/8180 (Bank code: 8180), as well as
- the "variable symbol" described below which is needed to identify the European patent application or European patent concerned.
The "variable symbol" consists of a 10-digit numerical code composed as follows:
1 9 y y y y y y y y
where:
1 9 = prefix – European patent application/European patent
yyyyyyyy = publication number of the European patent application (without A or B)
Updating of the EPO information brochure "National law relating to the EPC"
Users of the EPO information brochure "National law relating to the EPC" (12th edition) are asked to amend column 2 of Table VIII accordingly.