Patent protection in Moldova

The heads of the European Patent Office and the State Agency on Intellectual Property of the Republic of Moldova have signed a validation agreement, which will allow European patent applications and patents to take legal effect in Moldova. Under this agreement, applicants will be able to validate their European patent applications and EPO-granted patents in Moldova, even though it is not a contracting state to the European Patent Convention. Thanks to the new agreement, European applications and patents validated for Moldova will have the same legal effects there as Moldovan ones, and be subject to Moldovan law.

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