Patents

Patents

Hungarian laws and regulations
Community laws and regulations
Treaties and Conventions

Hungarian laws and regulations

Act XXIII of 2009 on the accession to the Agreement, dated 17 October 2000 in London, on the application of Article 65 of the Convention on the Grant of European Patent (Hungarian only)

Government Decree No. 147/2007. (VI. 26.) on the detailed rules concerning electronic filing of certain documents in industrial property procedures (Hungarian only)

Decree No. 19/2005. (IV. 12.) GKM on the fees for administrative services in industrial property procedures before the Hungarian Patent Office

Government Decree No 26/2004 (II. 26.) on the rules necessary for the implementation of the European Community Regulations concerning the creation of a supplementary protection for certain products

Decree No. 20/2002. (XII. 12.) IM on the detailed formalities for patent applications, documents filed in relation to European patent applications, European patents and international patent applications and for applications for plant variety protection (Hungarian only)

Act VII of 1994 on the amendments to certain laws of industrial property and copyright (Hungarian only)

Enforcement of decision on intellectual property rights infringement -– Act LIII of 1994 on Judicial Execution [184/A. §] (Hungarian only)

Government Decree No. 141/2008. (V. 16.) on the detailed rules of the procedure to declare a patent application a State secret (Hungarian only)

Government Decree No. 61/2006. (III. 23.) on the deposit and handling of biological materials for the purposes of patent procedures (Hungarian only)

Community laws and regulations

Regulation (EC) No 816/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 May 2006 on compulsory licensing of patents relating to the manufacture of pharmaceutical products for export to countries with public health problems

Directive 2004/48/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2004 on the enforcement of intellectual property right

Directive 98/44 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 6 July 1998 on the legal protection of biotechnological inventions

Regulation (EC) No 469/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 6 May 2009 concerning the supplementary protection certificate for medicinal products (Codified version) (Text with EEA relevance)

Regulation 1610/96/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 July 1996 concerning a supplementary protection certificate for plant protection products

Treaties and Conventions

Agreement on the Visegrad Patent Institute 
(Promulgated by the Act LXIX of 2015)

Headquarters Agreement between the Government of Hungary and the Visegrad Patent Institute
(Promulgated by the Act IX of 2022 - Annex 2 includes the authentic text in English)

Agreement for the mutual safeguarding of secrecy of inventions relating to defence and for which applications for patents have been made
Promulgated by the Act CVI of 1999

Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property
(Promulgated by the Law Decree No. 18/1970 - Hungaryan only)

European Patent Convention 2000 (EPC 2000)
(Promulgated by the Act CXXX of 2007 - Hungarian only)

Implementing Regulations to the European Patent Convention 2000
(Promulgated by the Government Decree No. 319/2007. (XII. 5.) - Hungarian only)

Agreement on the application of Article 65 of the Convention on the Grant of European Patents
Act XXIII of 2009 on the accession to the Agreement, dated 17 October 2000 in London, on the application of Article 65 of the Convention on the Grant of European Patent (Hungarian only)

Patent Cooperation Treaty
(Promulgated by the Law Decree No. 14/1980 - Hungarian only)

Regulations under the Patent Cooperation Treaty
(Promulgated by the Decree No. 34/2002. (XII. 25.) IM - Hungarian only)

Patent Law Treaty
Promulgated by the Act CXXXI of 2007 - Hungarian only)

Regulations under the Patent Law Treaty
(Promulgated by the Government Decree No. 320/2007. (XII. 5.) - Hungarian only)

Budapest Treaty on the International Recognition of the Deposit of Microorganisms for the Purposes of Patent Procedure
(Promulgated by the Law Decree No. 1/1981. - Hungarian only)

Regulations Under the Budapest Treaty on the International Recognition of the Deposit of Microorganisms for the Purposes of Patent Procedure
(Promulgated by the Decree No. 21/2002. (XII. 13.) - Hungarian only)

* Non-authentic translation of the title.