Requirements
- Applicant’s name and address.
- Inventor’s name and address.
- Specification in 2 copies preferably in English, German, or French for translation into Hungarian.
- Power of Attorney.
- Drawings in 4 copies, if any.
- Assignment Document, if the applicant and the inventor are not the same person.
- Certificate of deposit of microorganisms, if the invention is based on the use of microorganisms
Additional requirements for convention applications
- Filing date, application number, and country of each basic foreign application.
- Certified copy of each basic foreign application, to be filed within 4 months from the filing date.
- Hungarian, English, French, or German translation of each certified copy, if it is not in any of these languages.
- Assignment Document, if applicant is not identical with the applicant(s) of the basic foreign application(s).
Minimum requirements for obtaining a filing date for a non-convention application
- Applicant’s name and address.
- Specification in one copy in any language.
- Drawings in one copy, if any.
Minimum requirements for obtaining a filing date for a convention application:
- Applicant’s name and address.
- Filing date, application number, and country of each basic foreign application. In this case, no specification and no drawings are necessary for obtaining a filing date.