V4 Countries Establish a Joint Patent Institute

Representatives of industrial property offices of the four member states signed an Agreement on the Visegrad Patent Institute that will operate as a non-governmental organization with the aim to promote innovation and increase competitiveness in the region through better and less expensive protection of innovation that originates in the V4 countries. The agreement was signed in the premises of the Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs of the Slovak Republic in Bratislava on February 26, 2015.

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