Questions / Committees Questions / Committees
| Bureau Advisory Committees | Working Committees |Special Committees |
Dissolved Committees |
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Limitations of the Trademark Protection |
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Divisional, Continuation and Continuation in Part Patent Applications |
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Acquiescence (tolerance) to infringement of Intellectual Property Rights |
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Relationship between trademarks and geographical indications |
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Contracts regarding Intellectual Property Rights (assignments and licenses) and third parties |
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Amendment of patent claims after grant (in court and administrative proceedings, including re-examination proceedings requested by third parties) |
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Conflicts between trademark protection and freedom of expression |
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Limitations on exclusive IP Rights by competition law |
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Punitive damages as a contentious issue of IP Rights |
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Employers' Rights to Intellectual Property |
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Database Protection at National and International Level |
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Conditions for Registration and Scope of Protection of non-conventional Trademarks |
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Content and Relevance of Industrial Applicability and/or Utility as Requirements for Patentability |
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Scope of Patent Protection |
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Implementing Regulations for the amended EPC |
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The role of equivalents and prosecution history in defining the scope of patent protection |
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Jurisdiction and applicable law in the case of cross-border infringement (infringing acts) of intellectual property rights |
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Issues of co-existence of trademarks and domain names: public versus private international registration systems |
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Statutes Committee |
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Membership Committee |
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Criminal law sanctions with regard to the infringement of intellectual property rights |
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Use of a mark "as a mark" as a legal requirement in respect of infringement and maintenance of rights |
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Current standards for prior art disclosure in assessing novelty and inventive step requirements |
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The Use of Trademarks and other Signs on the Internet |
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Attorney-Client Privilege and the Patent and/or Trademark Attorneys Profession |
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Revision of the European Patent Convention (EPC) |
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The Need and Possible Means of Implementing the Convention on Biodiversity into Patent Laws |
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Patentability of Business Methods |
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The Relationship between Technical Standards and Patent Rights |
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International Exhaustion of Industrial Property Rights |
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Conflicts between Trademarks and Company and Business Names |
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Ad Hoc Nominating Committee |
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Hague Conference on Private International Law |
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The impact of Advertising Restrictions on Trademarks |
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Patentability Requirements and Scope of Protection of Expressed Sequence Tags (ESTs), single Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNPs) and Entire Genomes |
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Corporate Members Advisory Committee (CMAC) |
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Three-dimensional Marks: The Borderline between Trademarks and Industrial Designs |
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The Effectinevess of Border Measures after TRIPS |
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International Exhaustion of Patent Rights |
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Public Relations Committee |
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Publications Committee |
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Trademarks and Internet domain names |
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Breadth of claims, support by disclosure and scope of protection of patents |
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Meetings Advisory Committee |
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Unfair competition - comparative advertising |
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Comparison of cost for patent application, granting procedure and enforcement |
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Confidentiality, disclosure and publication of data in information networks |
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The future of the Patent System in Europe |
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The role and function of experts in patent disputes |
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Protection of terms in foreign languages as mark |
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Q134 B |
Enforcement of intellectual property rights - procedure and sanctions |
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Q134 A |
Enforcement of intellectual property rights - infringement and liability |
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Enforcement of intellectual property rights TRIPS |
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Patenting of Computer Software |
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AIPPI Promotion and Development |
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Patent term extension (Comparison of different concepts) |
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Q129 |
Legal aspects of merchandizing |
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Patents and protection of the environment |
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Evaluation of confusion in Trademark Law |
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Q126 |
Methods and principles of novelty evaluation in patent law |
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AIPPI World Intellectual Property Forum |
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Copyright protection in particular of industrial achievements |
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Centennial of AIPPI |
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Customs seizure and other measures against counterfeiting |
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Q121 |
Difficulties encountered in the acquisition and exercise of industrial property rights (in foreign countries) |
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Policy and structure of administration |
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Restoration of patents and patent application rights which have lapsed because of post filing defaults in meeting time limits |
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Geographical Indications |
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The utility model protection system as an alternative to be patent protection system |
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Harmonisation of the existing utility model protection systems (including EU) |
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Q117 |
Introduction of new and harmonization of the existing utility model protection systems |
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Trademark licensing and franchising |
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Effective protection against unfair competition under Article 10bis Paris Convention of 1883 |
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National legislation advisory committee |
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Q112 |
Restoration of patent rights |
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Q111 |
Reorganization of working methods of IAPIP |
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Copyright (coordination with ALAI) |
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Improvement of international protection of designs and models |
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Q107 |
House marks |
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Arbitration of intellectual property disputes between private parties |
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Q105 |
Experimental use as a defence to a claim of patent infringement |
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Q104 |
Trademarks: Conflicts with prior rights |
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International Conventions: Dispute settlement procedures |
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Q102 |
Effects of patent or trademark invalidity on license agreements |
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Q101 |
Parallel import of patented product |
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Q100 |
Protection of unregistered but well-known trademarks (Art. 6bis Paris Convention) and protection of highly renown trademarks |
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Q99 |
Participation of third parties in the patent granting and amendment procedures |
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Q98 |
Early publication and provisional protection of patent applications |
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Q97 |
Dependent patents and their exploitation |
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Q96 |
What may constitute a registrable trademark? |
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Q95 |
Non confusing use of another's trademark |
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Q93 |
Biotechnology (Relationship between patent protection and biotechnological inventions and plant variety protection; Patentability of animal breedings |
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Harmonisation of substantive provisions of Trademark Law |
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Q92 D |
Harmonization of formal requirements for trademark applications, registrations andamendments thereof |
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Q92 C |
Absolute grounds of refusal of registration of trademarks |
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Q92 B |
Protection of service marks |
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Q92 A |
Use requirements for the acquisition and the maintenance of registered trademarks |
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Harmonisation of Trademark Law |
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Q91 |
Conflict of industrial property right and other laws |
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Q90 |
Obtaining of evidence of the infringement of industrial property rights |
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Patentability under the European Patent Convention |
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The influence of the international dateline |
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Harmonisation of patent law formalities |
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Q89 D |
Prior use |
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Q89 C |
Self-Collision |
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Q89 B |
Drafting of patent claims |
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Q89 A |
Requirements and time deadlines for filing patent applications |
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Harmonization of certain provisions of the legal systems for protecting inventions |
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International registration of marks (Madrid Protocol) |
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Community Patent |
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Q86 |
Measures against counterfeiting of branded goods |
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Q84 |
Selection inventions |
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Q83 |
Legal and economic significance of protection by utility models |
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Q82 |
Patent protection for biotechnological inventions |
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Q81 |
Protection for groups of chemical substances and selection inventions |
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Q80 |
Trademarks and consumer protection |
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Q79 |
Change of patent claims after issue |
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Q78 |
The dependent patent |
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Q77 |
Misleading and unfair advertising (Television without frontiers) |
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Q76 |
Relevance of copyright law to industrial products / Copyright and industrial products |
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Q75 |
Prior disclosure and prior use of the invention by the inventor |
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Q74 |
Comparative advertising |
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Q73 |
Legal and economic significance of design protection |
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Q72 |
Protection of collective and certification marks |
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Q71 |
Assessment of damages for patent infringements |
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Q70 |
Impact of use on the maintenance and renewal of a trade mark registration |
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Q69 |
Sufficient description of the invention |
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Q68 |
Economic significance, functions and purpose of the trademark |
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Revision of the Paris Convention |
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Q66 |
The European trade mark |
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Q65 |
Protection of the environment |
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Q64 |
Protection of inventions jointly made by nationals of different countries |
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Q63 |
Incidence of force majeure on time limits in the field of industrial property |
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Appellations of origin, indications of source and geographical indications |
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Q61 |
Protection of scientific discoveries |
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Q60 |
Interpretation of patent claims |
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Q59 |
The international trade mark with supranational effect |
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Q58 |
Applicant's prior application as prior art |
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Q57 A |
Protection of integrated circuits |
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Q57 |
Protection of computer programmes - Protection of computer-software |
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Q56 |
Protection of industrial property in the field of microbiology |
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Q55 |
Deferred examination of patent applications |
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Q54 |
European system for the grant of patents |
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Q53 B |
Influence of laws on restraint of trade or transfer of technology on know-how agreements |
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Q53 A |
The know-how - Definition - Legal regime |
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Q52 |
Possible revision of the Madrid Agreement concerning the international registration of trade marks |
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Q51 |
Application of the International Convention for the protection of new varieties of plants of 1961 |
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Q50 |
Reorganization of the IAPIP |
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Q49 |
Improvement on an international scale of patent examination |
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Q48 |
Application of Articles 2 and 15 of the Paris Convention |
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Q47 |
Effects of the territoriality of trade mark rights in case of unauthorized importation of products |
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Q46 |
Rearrangement of the text of the International Convention for the protection of intellectual property |
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Q45 B |
The role of trade marks, trade names and geographical indications |
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Q45 A |
The role of patents and know-how in the transfer of technology and in stimulating indigenous technology |
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Q45 |
Value of industrial property for technical development and economic progress in developing countries |
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Q44 |
Model law for developing countries on inventions |
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Q43 |
The administrative structure of international cooperation in the field of intellectual property |
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Q42 |
The inventors' certificate |
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Q41 |
Protection of the commercial name |
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Q40 |
The inventions of employees |
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Q39 |
Reasons for which the rights of the patentee can be restricted |
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Q38 |
The problem of exhibitions |
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Q37 |
Incidence on industrial property rights of national or international provisions guaranteeing free competition |
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Q36 |
Interpretation of Article 5 A of the Paris Convention |
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Q35 |
Method and preparations of a study on the unification of laws on patents for inventions |
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Q34 |
International protection of works of applied art, designs and models |
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Q33 |
Temporary protection at expositions |
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Q32 |
Translation of the mark |
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Q31 |
Licensing of trade marks |
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Q30 |
Interdiction of the suppression or the limitation of the right to a trade mark after a certain duration of use |
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Q29 |
Trade marks or names with extended protection |
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Q28 |
Competence of arbitrators and enforcement of their awards in matters of contracts relating to industrial property |
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Q27 |
International Arrangement for the protection of appellations of origin and their international registration |
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Q26 |
Arrangement of Madrid for the prevention of false indications of origin on goods |
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Q25 |
Cancellation of the registration of a trade mark at any time upon proof of abandon |
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Q24 |
Definition of the grounds on which the rights of the patentee could be restricted |
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Q23 |
Study on the unification of the right of trade marks |
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Q22 |
Scope of patents for processes, machines and apparatus |
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Q21 |
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Q20 |
Harmonization of national laws in the field of industrial property |
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Q19 |
Protection of indications of source and appellations of origin |
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Q18 |
Study of protection granted to trade names; possible modification of Article 8 of the Paris Convention (originally in French) |
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Q17 |
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Q16 |
The protection of trade names in the Paris Convention. Is it necessary to further specify the scope of Article 8? (originally in French) |
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Q15 |
Is it necessary to introduce into the Paris Convention special provisions on the law applicable to patent disputes in case of a conflict of law? (originally in French) |
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Q14 |
New applications for chemical products in the agriculture |
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Q13 |
Competence of tribunals in industrial property matters and enforcement at defendant's domicile of judgements rendered in the country of the protection |
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Q12 |
Annuities for patents |
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Q11 |
The Lisbon Conference - The Conference of Nice |
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Q10 |
Prolongation of terms of all kinds expiring on a holiday |
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Q9 |
By what means may the tendency of the countries be countered to deviate from the rules of reciprocity by the implementation of special rules for patent applications? (originally in French) |
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Q8 |
Integral application of the provisions of the Paris Convention (originally in French)Application intégrale des dispositions de la Convention de Paris |
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Q7 |
Appellations of origin |
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Q6 |
Should a definition of trade marks be introduced into the Convention? |
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Q5 |
Termination of rights of registered trade marks owing to non-use |
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Q4 |
Application of the Convention to colonies, possessions, etc., and to states acquiring their independence (originally in French) |
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Q3 |
Restrictions of the rights of the patentee for reasons of public interest |
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Q2 |
Protection against the importation of products the process of manufacture of which is patented in the importing country |
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Q1 |
Rearrangement of the text of the International Convention for the protection of industrial property |
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