FRS data

Data

provided

HR - Contents

Status

Yes

The following statuses are provided:

Request for EP validation received: EP granted, the national formality procedure for validation is in progress

Patent not validated: Request for validation rejected or refused because of a failure to submit a translation of the description or to pay the fee within the time allowed after granted; patent is not considered to be valid in Croatia from the outset (e.g. HRP20131071T / EP2426119)

Patent validated: European patent is valid and in force in Croatia

Patent expired: Patent expired after 20 years of its validity

Patent lapsed: Patent lapsed due to non-payment of renewal fees

Patent surrendered: Holder of a patent surrendered its rights, and patent is no longer valid

Patent revoked: Validated patent declared null and void by EPO or SIPO HR

Application No.

Yes

The application number is the number assigned by SIPO Croatia. It is a number of a request for validation assigned to a European patent when it enters into the national phase.

Format number: HRPyyyynnnnT (e.g.: HRP20160010T)

The letter code P stands for: „Patent“ and it is always provided in HR patent application numbers

The letter T stands for: „Translation“ and it is always provided in HR request for validation numbers.

For the purpose of FRS, the prefix “HR” is provided before the letter “P”.  Prefix “HR” is not displayed in the national patent Register.

Publication No.

Yes

The publication number is the number assigned by SIPO Croatia.

Format number: HRPyyyynnnn (e.g.: HRP20160010)

The letter code P stands for: „Patent“ and it is always provided in HR patent publication numbers

SIPO Croatia assigns its own publication number, containing the number of the request (application) for the validation of a European patent entering the national phase.

If the European patent is not yet validated or the request for validation is rejected or refused so the publication number has not been assigned, the EPO publication number shall be displayed.

For the purpose of FRS, the prefix “HR” is provided before the letter “P”.  Prefix “HR” is not displayed in the national patent Register.

Proprietor

Yes

All proprietors are listed in the table by the name, truncated to the first 150 characters.

Invalidation date

Yes

Invalidation date is the date of a legal effect of the decision (patent expired, lapsed, surrendered, revoked)

Not in force since

Yes

The not in force since date is the date on which the rights conferred by the patent are no longer considered to be in force. The not in force since date may or may not be the same as the invalidation date.

Patent expired: patent expired after 20 years, i.e. on the day of the anniversary of the filing date of an application. Thus a 20 years period that starts for example on 10 January 2000. ends on 10 January 2020.

Patent lapsed(date of the last fee payment): patent lapsed due tonon-payment of an annual fee (e.g. HRP20150166 / EP2574226).

Patent surrendered: patent no longer valid due to a written declaration of the holder of a patent on the surrender of its rights; it takes effect on the day following the day of its submission to the SIPO HR. Annual fees could have been paid before the request for surrender was submitted (e.g. HRP20120960 / EP2121139).

Patent revoked: Validated patent declared null and void by the EPO or SIPO HR; revocation has a retro-active effect to the filing date of a European application (e.g. HRP20120790 / EP2185191).

Since revoked patents are patents that are no longer in force, both “Invalidation Date” and “Not in force since” Date in Federated Register are displayed.

“Invalidation Date” is the date of the legal effect of the decision on revocation of a European patent either before the EPO, or before the SIPO Croatia (when the decision on the invalidation was taken).

“Not in force since” date is the filing date of a European application, since the effect of revocation, according to the Croatian Law, is ex nunc.

The "not in force since" date could also be retroactive to the "invalidation date", the date on which the legal obligation was not filled, e.g. renewal fees were not paid, invalidation occurs after expiry of time limits, but patent only in force until end of period for which the fees were paid.

Annual fees could have been paid before the request for revocation was even filed or after the decision related to the opposition was made. If so, the last annual fee paid will be displayed for that patent, although it is of no impact to the revocation.

“Record last updated” is unrelated with the “Not in force” date.

Renewal fees last paid

Yes

Date and number (year) of the latest annual fee paid.

Record last updated

Yes

The date of the last update of the Croatian database, which is twice a month.

This date corresponds to the last update of the Croatian National Register database. The date for the “Record last updated” is not available

SPC

No

The data is planned to be provided in future.

At present deep linking to the SPC database is provided from the national patent database.