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- Regional Industrial Property Offices
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- There are few regional patent or trademark offices.
- One is the European Patent Office, which examines patent
- applications and issues national patents in those of the
- member countries (currently 14) chosen by the applicant.
- Other regional offices include the English-speaking African
- Industrial Property Office (ARIPO), the French-speaking
- African Intellectual Property Organization (AIPO), and the
- Benelux Trademark and Designs Office (Belgium, Luxembourg
- and the Netherlands).
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