Patent office struggles to handle backlog

Quirin Schiermeier

Nature, 1998, vol. 393, issue 6687, 722-722

Abstract: munich The European Patent Office is to recruit a further 250 patent examiners next year to keep up with the rapidly growing number of applications.

Date: 1998
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