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Act Revising Certain Provisions of Patent Act and Other Acts in the Field of Industrial Property Protection, Germany

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Year of Version 2013 Dates Adopted: October 19, 2013 Type of Text Main IP Laws   Subject Matter Patents (Inventions), Utility Models, Industrial Designs, Trademarks Subject Matter (secondary) IP Regulatory Body Notes Article 8 of this Act states that it entered into force on October 25, 2013, on the day following its publication in the Federal Law Gazette; except Articles 1(3 to 8a), 9b, 10 to 18 and 21; Article 2(1 to 4a), Article 4(1 to 2), and Article 7, which entered into force on April 1, 2014.

Available Texts Main text(s) Main text(s) German Gesetz zur Novellierung patentrechtlicher Vorschriften und anderer Gesetze des gewerblichen Rechtsschutzes PDF HTML
Legislation Amends (7 text(s)) Amends (7 text(s))
Act on the Protection of Trade Marks and other Signs (DE309)
Act on the Legal Protection of Designs  (DE294)
Act on the Protection of Topographies of Microelectronic Semiconductor Products (Semiconductor Protection Act, as amended up to Act of August 10, 2021)  (DE302)
Act relating to the Convention on the Unification of Certain Points of Substantive Law on Patents for Invention of November 27, 1963, the Patent Cooperation Treaty of June 19, 1970, and the European Patent Convention of October 5, 1973 (Act on International Patent Treaties, as amended up to Act of August 20, 2021) (DE301)
Patent Act (as amended up to Act of 30 August 2021) (DE284)
Utility Models Act (as amended up to Act of April 13, 2017) (DE235)
Act on the Protection of the Topographies of Microelectronic Semiconductor Products (Semiconductor Protection Act, as amended up to Act of November 24, 2011) (DE190)

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