SIPO: Legislation Slovenia

Legislation in the Republic of Slovenia

General (Acts comprising provisions on intellectual property rights)

Penal Code of the Republic of Slovenia (Official Gazette RS, No 55/2008, No 55/2009)
Liability of Legal Persons for Criminal Offences Act (Official Gazette RS, No 98/2004, No 65/2008, No 57/2012)
Act Implementing the Customs Regulations of the European Community (Official Gazette RS, No 25/2004, No 111/2007) (this regulation falls within the competence of the Customs Administration)
Rules on insuring payment of expenses and determining the level of costs of safe-keeping and maintenance of goods during temporary detention and seizure of goods in case of application of customs measures in cases of intellectual property violations (Official Gazette RS, No 33/2004) (this regulation falls within the competence of the Customs Administration)
Obligations Code (Official Gazette RS, No 83/2001, No 40/2007)
Civil Procedure Act (Official Gazette RS, No 36/2004 - officially consolidated text, No 52/2007, No 45/2008)

Copyright and Related Rights Act (Official Gazette No 16/2007, No 68/2008)
Decree on amounts of remuneration for private and other internal reproduction (Official Gazette RS, No 103/2006)
Decree on mediation in disputes concerning copyright and related rights (Official Gazette RS, No 35/2005)
Decision determining the list of mediators (Official Gazette RS, No 82/2005)
Decision on the completion of the list of mediators (Official Gazette RS, No 36/2007)
Decree on arbitration in disputes concerning copyright and related rights (Official Gazette RS, No 65/2006)

Industrial Property Act (Official Gazette RS, No 51/2006)
Decree on the fees of the Slovenian Intellectual Property Office (Official Gazette RS, No 128/2006)
Rules on the registers of applications and industrial property rights and on the certificate of the priority right (Official Gazette RS, No 102/2001)
Rules on passing the qualifying examination and entry into the register of agents kept by the Slovenian Intellectual Property Office (Official Gazette RS, No 111/2001)
Order on the tariff of information services (Official Gazette RS, No 71/2006)

Patents & Supplementary patent certificates

Decree on the legal protection of biotechnological inventions (Official Gazette RS, No 81/2003)
Decree implementing Council Regulations (EC) concerning the creation of a supplementary protection certificate for medicinal products and for plant protection products (Official Gazette RS, No 56/2005, No 65/2006) (reference to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1768/92 of 18 June 1992 concerning the supplementary protection certificate for medicinal products is to be taken as a reference to Regulation (EC) No 469/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 6 May 2009 (Codified version), and should be read in accordance with the correlation table in Annex II hereto – 2. paragraph of Article 22)
Decree on the extension of European Patents to Slovenia (Official Gazette RS, No 15/2002) (applicable for requests for extension of European patents filed before 1 December 2002)
Rules on the contents of patent applications and divisional patent procedure (Official Gazette RS, No 102/2001)

Industrial designs

Decree implementing Council Regulation (EC) on Community designs and Council Regulation (EC) on Community trademarks (Official Gazette RS, No 4/2007)
Rules on the contents of industrial design applications (Official Gazette RS, No 102/2001, No 112/2004)

Trademarks

Decree implementing Council Regulation (EC) on Community designs and Council Regulation (EC) on Community trademarks (Official Gazette RS, No 4/2007)
Rules on the contents of trademark applications (Official Gazette RS, No 102/2001)
Rules on the procedure concerning requests for the international registration of trademarks (Official Gazette RS, No 124/2006)

Geographical indications

Job Related Inventions

Job Related Inventions Act (Official Gazette RS, No 15/2007)
Rules on compensation for job-related inventions (Official Gazette RS, No 65/2007)

Act on the Protection of Topographies of Integrated Circuits (Official Gazette RS, No 81/2006)
Decree on the fees of the Slovenian Intellectual Property Office (Official Gazette RS, No 65/2006)
Rules on the registration of topographies of integrated circuits (Official Gazette RS, No 34/2003)

These regulations fall within the competence of the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Food.

Wine, spirit drinks

Wine Act (Official Gazette RS, No 105/2006)
Rules on the list of designation of geographical origin for wines and other grape and wine products (Official Gazette RS, No 68/2002, No 42/2003)
Rules on the designation of wine, must and other grape and wine products and their packaging (Official Gazette RS, No 40/2001, No 52/2003, No 44/2005)

Agricultural products, foodstuffs

Agriculture Act (Official Gazette RS, No 51/2006)
Rules on procedures for the recognition of special agricultural products or foodstuffs (Official Gazette RS, No 76/2003, No 18/1994, No 47/2005)
Rules on the trade mark for labelling agricultural products or foodstuffs (Official Gazette RS, No 58/2001, No 28/2004, No 87/2004, No 121/2006)
Rules on the requirements for the use of the indication of geographical denomination of agricultural products and foodstuffs (Official Gazette RS, No 7/2001)

These regulations fall within the competence of the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Food.