Laws and Regulations under TRIPS Art. 63.2 - View details of the document

Slovak Republic
Pursuant to Article 70.8 of the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights, the Slovak Republic wishes to notify that legal protection for agricultural chemical products is provided for in Act No.527/1990LC on Inventions, Industrial Designs and Rationalization Proposals, in Chapter I, §3 (Patentability of Inventions) and §4 (Exclusions from Patentability). Due to the broad coverage of this law, only the exceptions from patentability are explicitly named. Agricultural chemical products (chemical products utilized in agriculture ranking to chemical products and chemical products produced in the agricultural sector, which are ranking to biotechnological products), although not explicitly named in these paragraphs, are fully covered by this law.