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Patent Protection in the Netherlands: The Registration Patent, the PCT Gap, and a Reform on the Horizon

The Netherlands occupies a special position in European patent law that many applicants only discover once they actually have to work with it: a Dutch national patent is, to this day, granted without any substantive examination of novelty or inventive … Continue reading

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