<img src="https://publish-01.obsidian.md/access/744ac39d33cabbc297b91373bfcac24d/bin/images/Slovakia_map.png" alt="Slovakia" class="page-header-sidebar-image"> Slovakia has provisions in its legislation relating to the granting of compulsory licences. These can be found in the Slovak Patent Act, No. 435/2001 Coll. on Patents, Supplementary Protection Certificates. The cumulative grounds for granting a compulsory licence are: 1. the expiration of a four-year period from the patent application filing date or three-year period from the date of grant, whereby the period that expires later shall apply; 2. the patentee did not accept due offer for concluding a licence agreement within 3 months; 3. the patentee does not use the invention or uses it insufficiently without due reason whereby the invention as product is not delivered to the market in sufficient quantity More information can be found [here](https://e-courses.epo.org/wbts_int/CompulsoryLicensing/CL_SK.pdf). ## Generic manufacturers Slovakia has its own generic manufacturer: [GENAS](https://www.genas.sk/).