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Chapter 11 Table
Country
Title
Subject matter protected
Other countries' petty patent systems
Maximum
term
(including renewals)
Novelty
Type of requirement examination
Provision for
compulsory licences
Germany
Gebrauchs
Any patentable
10 years
Local
Formal only
Yes
*
muster
invention not being a
(utility
method or process.
model)
Italy
*
Utility model
10 years
Absolute
Formal only
Yes
Ireland
Short-term
(NB From patent
the Patents
Bill, 1991)
*
7
Japan
*
Utility model
Models capable of
conferring a particular efficiency, usefulness, or ease of application to machines, machine parts, instruments, tools, or implements.
An invention which is new and susceptible of industrial application provided it is not clearly lacking an inventive step.
Any novel device
relating to shape,
construction or
assemblage of an article.
(* denotes Convention country)
Chapter 11 Table
Country
Title
Subject matter protected
10 years
Absolute
Formal only
Yes[?]
15 years
Absolute publication/ local use
Formality, novelty and inventiveness examinations, but level of inventiveness required is less.
Other countries' petty patent systems
Maximum
term
Yes
Novelty requirement
Type of examination
Provision
for
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