Annual Report on Provision of Information Pursuant to Act No. 106/1999 Coll. on Free Access of Information, for 2009

The Industrial Property Office regards frankness, completeness and truthfulness of information provided to the public as one of its priorities. The Office dealt with thousands of various inquiries and requests for information via the Internet, information centres, during personal consultations, by letters, e-mail or telephone in 2009. It can be assumed that the very above mentioned facts and their general knowledge are the reasons why only 3 requests for information were filed in writing that explicitly referred to the provisions of Act No. 106/1999 Coll. All these requests were dealt with properly, in time and without payment requirements. No complaints were filed concerning the Office’s practice when dealing with requests for information. The Office does not provide exclusive licences within the meaning of Act No. 106/1999 Coll.

List of fees to be paid for the information provided according to the Article 17 (1) of the Law No. 106/1999 of Coll.

In terms of the article 5(1)(f) of the Law No. 106/1999 of Coll., the Industrial Property Office sets down the following list of fees for the information provided.

1. The applicant for the information provided by the Industrial Property Office shall pay the costs linked with the search of information, copying and dispatching in the amount of CZK 200 for each initiated operation hour when searching the information (if the time necessary to the provision of the information is shorter than 30 minutes the cost can be reduced to a half).
   
2. Additional costs on copying and dispatching the information:
   • (a) CZK 2 for one A4 black and white printed copy or copy,
   • (b) CZK 25 for one A4 colour printed copy or copy,
   • (c) CZK 7 for one blank 3,5" diskette,
   • (d) costs on dispatching according to the current mail service prices,
   • (e) CZK 9 for one blank CD-R.
3. The information requested shall be released only after the evident settlement of the costs or sent cash on delivery. If higher costs than generally are presumable, an advance payment may be requested.
   
4. The publications and printed matters issued by the Office are sold in the Training Institute or in the public reading room for the price printed on the publication.
   
5. This list of fees does not relate to professional technical services (patent and trademark searches, etc.) provided especially by the patent information department in the framework of the information from the central fund of patent literature (article 2(c) of the Law No. 14/1993 of Coll.). These fees are stipulated by a special list of fees.