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Wednesday, January 14, 2004

German Govenment to promote Novelty Grace Period?

On January 07, 2004 the

Financial Times Deutschland reported in an

article written [in German!] by Birgit Jennen and Wolfgang Proissl that the German Government is mooting to push towards the introduction of a novelty grace period into patent law. According to the report, the matter is to be dealt with on EU level during the

Irish EU presidency. The

BDI is said to be opposing any such proposal.

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