The UPV API for trademark search

The Úřad průmyslového vlastnictví (ÚPV) is the Czech national authority responsible for examining and registering trademarks, patents, utility models, industrial designs, and geographical indications in the Czech Republic. Headquartered in Prague at Antonína Čermáka 2a, it operates as an independent central state administrative authority — not subordinated to a parent ministry — and maintains the Czech trademark register under the Trade Marks Act No. 441/2003 Coll., as amended by Act No. 286/2018 Coll. that transposed the EU Trademark Directive 2015/2436 (effective 1 January 2019) and further amended by Act No. 261/2021 Coll. The office traces its lineage to the Patent Office in Prague founded in 1919, was re-established in its current form in 1993 after the dissolution of Czechoslovakia, and moved to its present building at the start of 1995. The Czech trademark register contains roughly 600,000 records — direct ÚPV national filings plus Madrid Protocol designations of CZ and the EUTMs valid in the territory — and receives approximately 7,000 to 10,000 new national applications per year on top of WIPO Madrid designations.

Because the Czech Republic is an EU member state, most applicants who want broad European coverage file an EU trademark (EUTM) at EUIPO — a single EUTM covers all 27 EU countries, the Czech Republic included, for not much more than a Czech national fee. ÚPV's national register exists for the case where applicants only need Czech protection, want to lock in an earlier Czech seniority date before extending via Madrid, are responding to local prior rights that would block a wider EUTM, or want examination in Czech under Act No. 441/2003 with appeals decided by the ÚPV President and onward to the Municipal Court in Prague. The Czech Republic has been a Madrid Protocol member since 25 September 1996 (instrument of accession deposited 25 June 1996, succeeding to the Madrid Agreement obligations Czechoslovakia had held), so the Czech Republic can be designated through WIPO as an alternative to a direct ÚPV filing.

ÚPV exposes the register through several channels. Rešerše ochranných známek is the free public web search at isdv.upv.gov.cz/webapp/!resdb.oza.frm — accessible without registration, covering ÚPV national filings, WIPO designations of CZ, and EUTMs valid in the Czech Republic. The office also publishes the Věstník ÚPV (Official Bulletin) weekly with new applications, oppositions, registrations, and status changes, and provides Open Data for Machine Processing — bulk XML exports in WIPO Standard ST.96 format with a full dump plus incremental diffs published on data.europa.eu, and a Legal status API at isdv.upv.gov.cz/webapp/resdb.ipr.status that returns XML keyed by file identification. Signa is building its ÚPV connector against these feeds for Q4 2026; on launch it will normalize the Czech-language register, the Act 441/2003 event vocabulary, and Madrid designations of CZ into the same unified schema used for USPTO, EUIPO, DPMA, INPI France, and every other office.