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440:"Rijkswet van 17 november 2005, houdende goedkeuring en uitvoering van de op 17 december 1991 te München tot stand gekomen Akte tot herziening van artikel 63 van het Verdrag inzake de verlening van Europese octrooien van 5 oktober 1973 (TRB. 1992, 47), het op 1 juni 2000 te Genève tot stand gekomen Verdrag inzake octrooirecht (TRB. 2001, 120), het op 17 oktober 2000 te Londen tot stand gekomen Verdrag inzake de toepassing van artikel 65 van het Verdrag inzake de verlening van Europese octrooien van 5 oktober 1973 (TRB. 2001, 21) en de op 29 november 2000 te München tot stand gekomen Akte tot herziening van het Verdrag inzake de verlening van Europese octrooien (TRB. 2002, 64)" 88:. Patents can be licensed and such license has effect against third parties only after registration with the Intellectual property office. The regulation provides for the grant of compulsory licenses in the public interest if the patent owner refuses to grant a licence The grant of compulsory licenses to the Kingdom in wartime however is governed by the Rijksoctrooiwet. 69:. and an International Search (or similar investigation regarding the state of the art) has to be requested for the 20-years' patent. The Aruban patent is a registration patent and thus granted if the application is clear and formal requirements are fulfilled, even if the search results in concerns regarding novelty or inventively. 148:
also applies on Aruba, and the Bureau of Intellectual property acts as a receiving office for international (PCT) applications. However, as the Kingdom of the Netherlands has "closed its national route", it is -also in Aruba- not possible to designate the Aruban patent at the end of the international
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in the Netherlands (the latter never applied in Aruba). However, as IP-law falls within the competence of the individual countries, Aruba decided to create the Aruban patent from 1 April 1995 and render patent applications for the Dutch patent inapplicable.
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Although patents are granted without a substantial examination, the court is competent to decide issues regarding validity, in addition to (amongst others) disputes regarding infringement, ownership and licenses. One decision
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in Aruba is 20 years, and also a short-term patent is available with a duration of 6 years. Inventions have to fulfill 3 requirements to be patentable: they have to be
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Aruba can not be a party to patent treaties itself, but the Kingdom is party to several treaties, also with respect to Aruba. This is the case for the
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Convention on the Unification of Certain Points of Substantive Law on Patents for Invention
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of up to 1 year from an earlier patent application in a Paris convention country. The
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Strasbourg Agreement Concerning the International Patent Classification
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landsverordening houdende regels met betrekking tot octrooien
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Index

Patent law
Aruba
Dutch
patent term
new
inventive
industrially applicable
Dutch
English
Papiamentu
Spanish
Aruba
Dutch
Kingdom of the Netherlands
Netherlands Antilles
Dutch
European patents
Paris convention
priority
Patent Cooperation Treaty
Convention on the Unification of Certain Points of Substantive Law on Patents for Invention
IPC
Strasbourg Agreement Concerning the International Patent Classification
Budapest Treaty
patent law treaty
European Patent Convention
ECLI:NL:OGEAA:2011:BQ6331


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