Slovenia in focus

Will Slovenian RCD filings for 2010 top 2008's record tally of 113? You can work it out (clues below)

This post is a "first" for Class 99 -- the first time the word "Slovenia" has appeared, according to the weblog's search facility. This small, attractive and industrious mountainous republic is the focal jurisdiction in the current issue of OHIM's Alicante News. According to OHIM, which may be struggling to say something bright and incisive:

"With just over 600 registrations since 2003, the registered Community design is reasonably popular with Slovenian undertakings. Last year there were more than 100 RCD filings with classes 25, 7 and 6 in highest demand.

The majority of Slovenian filers prefer the online route, with over 96% now using e-filing and the remaining applications coming by mail".

2008 was a good year for filings, there being 113 of them, or one nearly every three days. If you disregard weekends, public holidays and saints' days, that's nearly one every two days. Assuming that OHIM is open seven hours a day, this works out at around one Slovenian application reaching Alicante every 15 working hours ...