Slovak Republic

According to Article 63, paragraph 1 ofSlovak Act 435/2001 Coll on Patents,Supplementary Protection Certificates andAmendment of Some Acts as Amended (thePatent Act), a European patent has the sameeffect as a patent granted by the SlovakPatent Office. Thus, the owner of a Europeanpatent has the exclusive right to use theinvention, to authorise others to use theinvention, to assign the patent to othersand to abandon the patent.