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The European limitation procedures were enacted by the European Patent Convention 2000 and came into effect in 2007. Requests for limitation allow a European patent proprietor to amend a European patent using a centralised ex parte procedure at the European Patent Office. 1 June 2014
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A Finnish national patent can be applied for at the National Board of Patents and Registration (NBPR). 1 June 2014
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A patent can be obtained via a German, a European or an international (Patent Cooperation Treaty) patent application. 1 June 2014
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Although copying other people’s work has been around for ages (as painters of old will confirm) we seem to have entered an actual ‘age of copying’. 1 June 2014
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To obtain legal protection for an interior or exterior store design in Turkey a company can register it in one of two way: as a trademark or as an industrial design. 1 June 2014
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The tort of passing off is typically centred upon the basic principle that “a man is not to sell his own goods under the pretence that they are the goods of another man”—otherwise commonly known as the classic form of passing off. 1 June 2014
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When a trademark application is filed in Mexico, the applicant may indicate the date of first use of the mark (day, month and year), if any. 1 June 2014
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Well-funded corporations and corporate litigants have generally enjoyed considerable advantages when it comes to obtaining and fighting over US patent rights. Some might argue that to think otherwise would suggest naïveté. 1 June 2014
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Several issues surrounding the nullity defence in design infringement lawsuits in Germany under the new German Designs Act have arisen. 1 June 2014
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A Swedish patent application is filed with the Swedish Patent and Registration Office (PRV), and is granted for a term of up to 20 years from the filing date (if the annual renewal fees are paid). 1 June 2014
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