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Second Act to Amend the Patent Act and Other Acts, Germany

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Year of Version 2000 Dates Adopted: July 16, 1998 Type of Text Main IP Laws Subject Matter Patents (Inventions), Utility Models, Industrial Designs, Trademarks, Layout Designs of Integrated Circuits, Copyright and Related Rights (Neighboring Rights) Notes Article 30 of the Act states that it comes into force on November 1, 1998, except for Article 7, which came into force on January 1, 2000.

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Act on Employee's Inventions (as amended up to Act of July 7, 2021) (DE303)
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 Extension of Industrial Property Rights (Extension Act, as amended up to Act of 4 April 2016) (DE238)
Law on the Protection of Microelectronic Semiconductor Products (Semiconductor Protection Law, as amended by the Law of July 31, 2009) (DE139)
Act on the Extension of Industrial Property Rights (Extension Act, as amended up to Act of March 12, 2004) (DE216)


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