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| | World Intellectual Property Organization (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) |
 | | In order to protect himself from the improper use of his work, the professor could simply file a request for a patent with the national Office for Intellectual Property in his country. |
 | | Thanks to the action of WIPO, he would then be offered to register his patent internationally, at a reasonable cost, which would afford him a legal protection for his device in some 100 countries. |
 | | Thanks to international treaties administered by WIPO such as, in particular, the Berne Convention, and to the national laws that complement them, copyrights for literary works, as all other artistic works, are protected in more than 120 countries. |
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