Patents are granted for new inventions (worldwide novelty) that express an inventive advance and are industrially applicable.
Patents
Protection and enforcement
Patents are granted for new inventions (worldwide novelty) that express an inventive advance and are industrially applicable. Disclosure by the applicant within one year preceding the date of application is not a bar to novelty.
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