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Organization created by patent offices of four countries
The
Visegrad Patent Institute
(
VPI
) is an international organization for cooperation in the field of
patents
, created by the national
patent offices
of the four
Visegrad countries
, namely the
Czech Republic
,
Hungary
,
Poland
and
Slovakia
.
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The Agreement on the Visegrad Patent Institute (VPI Agreement) was signed in
Bratislava
on February 26, 2015.
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The Institute acts as an
International Searching Authority
(ISA) and
International Preliminary Examining Authorities
(IPEA) under the
Patent Cooperation Treaty
(PCT).
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According to Slovak Foreign Affairs Minister
Miroslav Laj?ak
, the signature of the agreement on creating the Visegrad Patent Institute was an important milestone in the history of the
Visegrad Group
, the alliance between Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia.
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