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12 August 2020PatentsMuireann Bolger

Top bureaucrat backs petition to scrap India’s appeals board

India’s controller general’s office has approved a petition that calls for the  Intellectual Property Appellate Board (IPAB) to be abolished, it was revealed on Monday, August 10.

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