SKIS offers and provides necessary technical support and expertise in protecting industrial property, from the time when the idea arises to the stage when a patent application is filled or a model is made.
Industrial intellectual rights in the Republic of Slovenia are managed by the Law on industrial property.
The Slovenian legislation provides the following as industrial property:
- Patent: gives a company an exclusive right to manufacture, use and sell a project during a limited period of time (20 years, can differ around countries). A patent is granted for inventions from all technical fields that are new and applicable on various industrial fields.
- Short-term patent: Short-term patent law provides a lower level of inventiveness required for the invention. The only condition provided is that the invention is achieved through creative work and that it shows a certain level of efficiency or practical economic advantage.
- Model: the exclusive right of a person or a company to protect a design which is new and has an individual character.
- Trademark: A trademark is any sign or combination of signs, enabling to differ between goods and services of different companies. It is necessary the sign can be presented graphically, especially if it contains words, personal names, letters, numbers, figurative elements, tri-dimensional images, forms of goods and their packaging and combination of colors as well as any combination of such signs.
- Supplementary protection certificate: It may be granted if the patent required is for a product, a process of its manufacturing or use of the product. Before the product can be economically used, it has to go over an official procedure of approval and only then it can enter the market.
- Geographical indication: Means a code/sign indicating that the goods originate from a certain territory, region or place in that territory, where a given quality, reputation or other characteristic of the good are essentially dependent on its geographical origin.