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| | SEL Resources: Patent and Trademark Information |
 | | The European Patent Office (EPO) is an international patent-granting authority established under the European Patent Convention (EPC), which was signed in Munich on 5 October 1973 and came into force on 7 October 1977. |
 | | The European Patent Organisation, for which the European Patent Office acts as executive arm, currently has 19 member states: all the EU countries plus Cyprus, Liechtenstein, Monaco and Switzerland. |
 | | The Russian Agency for Patents and Trademarks (Rospatent) is a federal executive body duly authorized to grant, register, and maintain rights to inventions, utility models, industrial designs, trademarks, service marks, appellations of origin, as well as to effect registration of computer programs, databases, and topographies of integrated circuits in the Russian Federation. |
| www.lib.virginia.edu /science/guides/s-patent.htm (899 words) |
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