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Erfindungsschutz an der Schwelle des EG‐Binnenmarktes
Author(s) -
Laufhütte Hans Dietrich
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
chemie ingenieur technik
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.365
H-Index - 36
eISSN - 1522-2640
pISSN - 0009-286X
DOI - 10.1002/cite.330630106
Subject(s) - industrial property , order (exchange) , business , european market , industrial organization , intellectual property , international trade , finance , political science , law
Industrial property protection on the threshold of the european single market. The protection of technical results obtained in research and development is important in order to guarantee the competitiveness of an enterprise. Patents and utility models serve this purpose. There is a plurality of possible parallel ways to obtain protection between which an applicant can choose. Besides the national patent and utility model supranational patent protection may be obtained for a plurality of European states in a common granting procedure, the so‐called European patent. With the advance of the common market common supranational European patent protection is likely to become more important. Setting out from the situation to gain protection in the Federal Republic of Germany these different possible ways of obtaining industrial property protection will be explained.