Slovakia

UP

Yes

UPC

Yes

Status of ratification

No. The agreement will be ratified only after it is approved by the Slovak Parliament; Slovak Parliament has not approved the agreement and according to publicly available sources, the approval of the agreement is not yet on its agenda. It is likely Slovakia will wait until the system is operational (the Ministry recommends to wait 3 years after beginning of operation with initiating the ratification process).

Local or Regional CFI

No information as yet.

Location/Venue of CFI

No information as yet.

Judges

No information as yet.

Languages

No information as yet.

UP/UPC implementing legislation

Implementation of the Unified Patent Agreement in Slovakia would not require to adopt/repeal any legal regulation. However, these materials state that it seems appropriate only to amend the Slovak Civil Procedure Act and the Judicial Enforcement Procedure Act with an aim to include the decisions of the Unified Patent Court into the bases for the judicial enforcement of obligations. There is currently no information on the status of these amendments. The ratification process is idle at the moment. It is difficult to predict when any next steps will be taken, but it is doubtful that anything will happen before the UPC starts functioning. Slovakia will very likely want to see and observe how the system functions before it ratifies.