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# Time-stamp: <2010-04-04 17:42:43 phm>

lab = Countries
lfol = countries
des = Governments are usually the staunchest supporters of the patent system and its expansion.  This is because patent policies tend to be determined by governmental patent experts who form a community among themselves that could be characterised as a state in the state.  We try to give an overview of the national patent establishments in Europe and the world.
kws = Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure, Software Patents, intellectual property, industrial property, IP, I2P, immaterial assets, law of immaterial goods, mathematical method, business methods, Rules of Organisation and Calculation, invention, non-inventions, computer-implemented inventions, computer-implementable inventions, software-related inventions, software-implemented inventions, software patent, computer patents, information patents, technical invention, technical character, technicity, technology, software engineering, industrial character, Patentierbarkeit, substantive patent law, Nutzungsrecht, patent inflation, quelloffen, standardisation, innovation, competition, European Patent Office, General Directorate for the Internal Market, patent movement, patent family, patent establishment, patent law, patent lawyers, lobby
tit = Patently Active Countries
sut = Which Sovereign grants which Exclusion Rights?
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