2010
January: Dr. Jurij Žurej was appointed Director of SIPO as of 15 January.
January: On the initiative of SIPO, Prof. Dr. Dres. h. c. Joseph Straus, a leading academic figure in European patent law, was awarded State Order for Services.
2009
April: SIPO was awarded the ISO 9001:2008 Certificate for quality management system.
June: Intersectoral Working Group for Fight against Piracy and Counterfeiting was established, which should ensure a more effective co-operation of state authorities in exercising their powers in piracy and counterfeiting.
September: Dr. Jurij Žurej was appointed Acting Director of SIPO as of 1 October, until the appointment of a new director.
2008
December: A memorandum of understanding on cooperation was concluded with the State Office for Inventions and Trademarks of Romania.
October: A cooperation agreement was concluded with the State Intellectual Property Office of the People's Republic of China.
May: The European Patent Forum and the European Inventor of the Year 2008 took place in Ljubljana. The event, which made part of the official program of the EU Presidency of Slovenia, was co-organised by the European Patent Office, the Government of Slovenia, the Slovenian Intellectual Property Office and the European Commission.
May: Under EPO project, SIPO introduced a new service for innovative SMEs that do not yet make use of intellectual property or lack experience in this field. This customised service includes a diagnosis of the current state of the company’s IP, as well as recommendations for the protection thereof.
2007
January: The amended Copyright and Related Rights Act and Employment Related Industrial Property Rights Act, as of then Employment Related Inventions Act, entered into force.
January: Slovenia ratified amendments to 11 international treaties adopted by WIPO General Assembly in October 2003, namely the Convention Establishing the World Intellectual Property Organization, Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property, Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic, Madrid Agreement Concerning the International Registration of Marks, Locarno Agreement Establishing an International Classification for Industrial Designs, Nice Agreement Concerning the International Classification of Goods and Services for the Purposes of the Registration of Marks, Patent Cooperation Treaty, Hague Agreement Concerning the International Deposit of Industrial Designs – Complementary Act of Stockholm, Budapest Treaty on the International Recognition of the Deposit of Micro-organisms for the Purposes of Patent Procedure, Vienna Agreement Establishing an International Classification of the Figurative Elements of Marks and Strasbourg Agreement Concerning the International Patent Classification
February: A cooperation agreement on joint promotion and informational services related to Community trademarks and designs was concluded with OHIM.
June: In the framework of CETMOS, a joint project of nine Central European countries, SIPO introduced a new information service offering searches of trademark databases of all participating countries. Already in the next year, CETMOS was presented at the Conference on the European Charter for SMEs as one of the three good practice examplary cases.
October: A Copyright Board was established at SIPO.
November: A National Action Plan for Slovenia was signed by SIPO and EPO for the period from 1 August 2007 to 31 July 2010.
November: A cooperation agreement was concluded with the Industrial Property Protection Office of the Republic of Macedonia.
December: A cooperation agreement for the year 2008 on joint promotion related to Community trademarks and designs was concluded with OHIM.
December: SIPO's website received the golden Netko 2007 award in the category of presentation of state and public institutions and communities.
2006
February: SIPO Industrial Property Bulletin (BIL) was made available on-line free of charge.
March: The amended Industrial Property Act, Copyright and Related Rights Act and Act on Protection of Topographies and Integrated Circuits entered into force.
May: SIPO was awarded the ISO 9001:2000 Certificate for quality management system.
June: A cooperation agreement was concluded with the Hungarian Patent Office.
November: SIPO presented its renewed website – new design and a number of additional contents and functions made it more accessible and user-friendly.
2005
January: SIPO awarded the status of an official information centre, which EPO placed on the list of PATLIB Centres, to the Central Technological Library of the University of Ljubljana.
February: SIPO began organising regular educational and promotional activities for general public related to intellectual property and performed by SIPO itself or in cooperation with other organisations.
April: Slovenia became party to the Patent Law Treaty.
June: An agreement on cooperation was concluded with the University of Ljubljana.
October: Slovenia was once again elected member to the Executive Committee of the Paris Union and thereby also a member of the WIPO Coordination Committee, and SIPO Directress, Dr. Strel, was elected Vice-President of the Patent Law Treaty Assembly.
2004
May: Upon accession to the EU the Act on Customs Measures in Cases of Intellectual Property Violations was replaced by the Act Implementing the Customs Regulations of the European Community.
September: Dr. Biserka Strel became the Directress of SIPO.
October: SIPO began publishing the periodical news "Novice" (in Slovenian only) to promptly inform general public about its activities and the latest events related to intellectual property.
2003
November: Slovenia was granted observer status in the Administrative Council of OHIM.
December: Slovenia became party to the Geneva Act of the Hague Agreement Concerning the International Registration of Industrial Designs.
December: SIPO awarded the status of an official information centre, which EPO placed on the list of PATLIB Centres, to the Maribor University Library.
2002
March: Slovenia became party to the WIPO Copyright Treaty.
May: Slovenia became party to the Trademark Law Treaty, WIPO Performances and Phonograms Treaty and Strasbourg Agreement Concerning the International Patent Classification.
November: The amended Industrial Property Rights Act entered into force.
December: Slovenia became party to the Convention on the Grant of European Patents and become a full member of EPO.
2001
April: SIPO which has been operating under the Ministry of Science and Technology became an autonomous body of the Ministry of the Economy.
May: Act Regulating Customs Measures Relating to Infringements of Intellectual Property Rights entered into force.
August: Slovenia became party to the Vienna Agreement Establishing an International Classification of Figurative Elements of Marks.
December: The amended Industrial Property Act, Copyright and Related Rights Act, the Employment Related Industrial Property Act and Act on Protection of Topographies of Integrated Circuits entered into force.
2000
March: Mr. Erik Vrenko became the Director of SIPO.
May: A cooperation agreement was concluded with the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (OHIM).
1999
July: Slovenia became party to the International Convention for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants.
1998
March: Slovenia became party to the Protocol to the Madrid Agreement Concerning the International Registration of Marks and Budapest Treaty on the International Recognition of the Deposit of Micro organisms for the Purposes of Patent Procedure.
May: Slovenia became party to the Nairobi Treaty on the Protection of the Olympic Symbol.
July: The two agreements between the Government of the Republic of Slovenia and the European Patent Organisation from 1993 were renewed, namely the Co-operation Agreement on Co-operation in the Field of Patents and the Agreement implementing Article 3(3) of the Co-operation Agreement (Extension Agreement).
1997
June: A cooperation agreement was concluded with the Department of Intellectual Property of the Kingdom of Thailand.
June: SIPO was granted the SIST ISO 9002: 1995 Certificate for quality management system as the first institution of the Slovenian State administration.
1996
March: An agreement on the forwarding of prior art searches and expert opinions was concluded with the Austrian Patent Office.
April: A cooperation agreement was concluded with the Industrial Property Protection Office of the Republic of Macedonia.
October: Slovenia became party to the Rome Convention for the Protection of Performers, Producers of Phonograms and Broadcasting Organisations and Geneva Convention for the Protection of Producers of Phonograms against Unauthorized Duplication of Their Phonograms.
1995
January: Slovenia became party to the Hague Agreement Concerning the International Deposit of Industrial Designs and the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights.
February: Slovenia was granted the observer status in the Administrative Council of the EPO.
April: The Copyright and Related Rights Act and the Act on Protection of Topographies of Integrated Circuits were adopted.
July: Slovenia became member of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) and SIPO was appointed as the IP contact point.
July: The Employment Related Industrial Property Act entered into force introducing a conciliation board at SIPO for the settlement of disputes between employees and the employers concerning inventions made in the course of employment.
September: Slovenia was re-elected a member to the Executive Committee of the Paris Union and thereby also a member of the WIPO Coordination Committee.
December: The first ESPACE CD-ROM with Slovenian patents made in co-operation with the EPO was published.
1994
March: Slovenia became party to the Patent Cooperation Treaty.
June: A cooperation agreement was concluded with the United Kingdom Patent Office.
September: A cooperation agreement was concluded with the Lithuanian Patent Office.
December: SIPO was assigned competence in the field of copyright and related rights, consequently changing its name to the present Slovenian Intellectual Property Office to better reflect its new functions.
December: An agreement on data exchange and agreement on the production of CD-ROMs with Slovenian patent documents was concluded with the European Patent Office.
1993
March: A cooperation agreement on the exchange of search and examination results was concluded with the French National Institute for Industrial Property.
June: The amended Industrial Property Act entered into force simplifying the examination part of the trademark registration procedure.
July: Two agreements were concluded between the Government of the Republic of Slovenia and the European Patent Organisation signed, namely the Co-operation Agreement on Co-operation in the Field of Patents and the Agreement implementing Article 3(3) of the Co-operation Agreement (Extension Agreement). The latter enabled the extension of validity of European patents to Slovenia and was to become the first agreement of this kind introducing a generally accepted model of co-operation between the European Patent Organisation and non-member States.
September: Slovenia was elected to become a member of the Executive Committee of the Paris Union and thereby also a member of the WIPO Coordination Committee. SIPO has ever since participated in the work of most of WIPO administrative and working bodies.
1992
April: The Industrial Property Act entered into force.
June: Slovenia declared the continued applicability of several treaties to which the former Yugoslavia was party, namely the Convention Establishing the World Intellectual Property Organization, Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property, Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works, Madrid Agreement Concerning the International Registration of Marks, Locarno Agreement Establishing an International Classification for Industrial Designs, Nice Agreement Concerning the International Classification of Goods and Services for the Purposes of the Registration of Marks, Convention Relating to the Distribution of Programme-Carrying Signals Transmitted by Satellite and Universal Copyright Convention.
December: A cooperation agreement was concluded with the Austrian Patent Office.
1991
June: The Slovenian Intellectual Property Office (SIPO) was established within the Ministry of Science and Technology under the name the Slovenian Industrial Property Protection Office. It’s first director became dr. Bojan Pretnar.
November: A cooperation agreement on the exchange of search and examination results was concluded with the German Patent Office.