The Delegation of Brazil expressed its understanding that WIPO was not a multilateral patent office, but a specialized agency of the United Nations and therefore had to act accordingly.
This makes software patents the gold donkey for patent lawyers and the patent office.
On the one hand, by allowing PDF filings, the PCT patent office risks losing out on the many benefits of tagged computer-readable data.
Under the Patent Law, the competent authorities in the State Council and local people's governments have the right to establish patent offices.
Of the 278,000 patents granted last year by the United States patent office, just 254 went to inventors from Brazil, which accounts for 3% of the world's output and people.
To pay the bills, he worked at the Swiss patent office, analyzing the inventions of others.
In 1902 he went to work as a patent office examiner in Bern.
The patent office just upheld a key embryonic stem cell patent, the latest turn in a long fight over some intellectual property that's central to the whole field.
So pushed by the large corporations, patent lawyers and patent offices, software patents shall now be introduced in Europe.
Weinstein, president of the foundation, pointed out in a statement: "They lied to the patent office in the 1980s, claiming they had discovered AZT drug's ability to treat AIDS, and by doing so, they secured their exclusive right to manufacture the drug.
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