In spite of world economic crisis, the number of national patent applications went up a significant 22% from 2008 to 2009, whereas the number of national trademark and design applications dropped by 17% and 28% respectively. The increase of patent applications might be partly attributed to financial and other measures taken by the government to promote innovation, as well as to the efforts of SIPO which, in cooperation with EPO, initiated in 2008 the establishment of Technology Transfer Office at University of Ljubljana and started to offer a new service for innovative SMEs with insufficient knowledge in IP field.

The statistical survey below comprises only applications filed with SIPO, omitting those that were filed for Slovenia under international treaties.

In 2009, SIPO received a total of 399 national patent applications, of which 387 were filed by Slovenian residents and 12 by foreign applicants. It also received 68 PCT applications, 13 European patent applications, 16 SPC applications, and 1599 requests for entry of European patents into SIPO register.

The number of national trademark applications totaled 1655; 1405 were filed by Slovenian residents and 250 by foreign applicants. The majority of applications concerned services in the field of business management, advertising, education, entertainment and scientific technologies.

SIPO also received 63 national applications for 86 designs, mostly from the field of construction elements, packaging and means of transport.

In 2009, SIPO carried out 81 IPR searches on order, most of them concerning patents.