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Belgian Office For Intellectual Property
The Belgian Office for Intellectual Property (in French: ''Office de la Propriété intellectuelle'' or ''OPRI''; in Dutch: ''Belgische Dienst voor de Intellectuele Eigendom'', or ''DIE'') is a Belgian government office to manage patent filing and rights. OPRI is based in Brussels,BE Belgian Office for Intellectual Property at European Patent Office and is part of the Federal Public Service Economy. OPRI coordinates with the and helps offer the Benelux Patent Platform. Inventors choose whether to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French Language
French ( or ) is a Romance languages, Romance language of the Indo-European languages, Indo-European family. Like all other Romance languages, it descended from the Vulgar Latin of the Roman Empire. French evolved from Northern Old Gallo-Romance, a descendant of the Latin spoken in Northern Gaul. Its closest relatives are the other langues d'oïl—languages historically spoken in northern France and in southern Belgium, which French (Francien language, Francien) largely supplanted. It was also substratum (linguistics), influenced by native Celtic languages of Northern Roman Gaul and by the Germanic languages, Germanic Frankish language of the post-Roman Franks, Frankish invaders. As a result of French and Belgian colonialism from the 16th century onward, it was introduced to new territories in the Americas, Africa, and Asia, and numerous French-based creole languages, most notably Haitian Creole, were established. A French-speaking person or nation may be referred to as Fra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dutch Language
Dutch ( ) is a West Germanic languages, West Germanic language of the Indo-European language family, spoken by about 25 million people as a first language and 5 million as a second language and is the List of languages by total number of speakers, third most spoken Germanic language. In Europe, Dutch is the native language of most of the population of the Netherlands and Flanders (which includes 60% of the population of Belgium). "1% of the EU population claims to speak Dutch well enough in order to have a conversation." (page 153). Dutch was one of the official languages of South Africa until 1925, when it was replaced by Afrikaans, a separate but partially Mutual intelligibility, mutually intelligible daughter language of Dutch. Afrikaans, depending on the definition used, may be considered a sister language, spoken, to some degree, by at least 16 million people, mainly in South Africa and Namibia, and evolving from Cape Dutch dialects. In South America, Dutch is the native l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brussels
Brussels, officially the Brussels-Capital Region, (All text and all but one graphic show the English name as Brussels-Capital Region.) is a Communities, regions and language areas of Belgium#Regions, region of Belgium comprising #Municipalities, 19 municipalities, including the City of Brussels, which is the capital of Belgium. The Brussels-Capital Region is located in the central portion of the country. It is a part of both the French Community of Belgium and the Flemish Community, and is separate from the Flemish Region (Flanders), within which it forms an enclave, and the Walloon Region (Wallonia), located less than to the south. Brussels grew from a small rural settlement on the river Senne (river), Senne to become an important city-region in Europe. Since the end of the Second World War, it has been a major centre for international politics and home to numerous international organisations, politicians, Diplomacy, diplomats and civil servants. Brussels is the ''de facto' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Federal Public Service Economy
The FPS Economy, SMEs, Middle Classes, and Energy (, , ), more commonly known as the FPS Economy, is a Federal Public Service of Belgium. It was created by Royal Order on 25 February 2002, as part of the plans of the Verhofstadt I Government to modernise the federal administration. It is responsible for contributing to the development, competitiveness and sustainability of the goods and services market, ensuring the position of the Belgian economy at the international level, promoting trade by fair economic relations in a competitive market, collecting, processing and disseminating economic information. Organisation The FPS Economy is currently organised into seven Directorates-General: * The Directorate-General for Energy * The Directorate-General for Economic Regulation * The Directorate-General for Economic Analysis and International Economy * The Directorate-General for SMEs Policy * The Directorate-General for Quality and Security * The Directorate-General for Economic Inspect ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
European Patent Office
The European Patent Office (EPO) is one of the two organs of the European Patent Organisation (EPOrg), the other being the Administrative Council. The EPO acts as executive body for the organisationGower's Report on Intellectual Property , para 1.34 while the Administrative Council acts as its supervisory body as well as, to a limited extent, its legislative body. The actual legislative power to revise the lies with the Contracting States themselves when meeting at a Conference of the Contracting States. Within the European Patent Office, [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patent Cooperation Treaty
The Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) is an international patent law treaty, concluded in 1970. It provides a unified procedure for filing patent applications to protect inventions in each of its contracting states. A patent application filed under the PCT is called an international application, or PCT application. A single filing of a PCT application is made with a Receiving Office (RO) in one language. It then results in a search performed by an International Searching Authority (ISA), accompanied by a written opinion regarding the patentability of the invention, which is the subject of the application. It is optionally followed by a preliminary examination, performed by an International Preliminary Examining Authority (IPEA). Finally, the relevant national or regional authorities administer matters related to the examination of application (if provided by national law) and issuance of patent. A PCT application does not itself result in the grant of a patent, since there is no ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Belgian National Archives 2 - Joseph Cuvelier Repository
The Dépôt Joseph Cuvelier of the Belgian State Archives opened in 2011. It is located on the / in Brussels, in a building designed by and built in 1912. Its name honors the historian and government archivist Joseph Cuvelier (1869–1947). Holdings The repository contains archival materials related to the economic and political history of Belgium, including: * Ministerial cabinets ** Didier Reynders (1999-2011) ** Olivier Chastel (2008-2011) * Service public fédéral Économie ** Commission des brevets, 1914-1932 * Ministère de la Reconstruction( fr) * Business enterprises, such as: ** Banque Belge pour l'Étranger ** Banque d’Outremer ** Chambre de commerce de Bruxelles ** Cimenterie CBR ** Clinique Malibran et Solbosch ** Compagnie de Pont à Mousson ** Compagnie financière Belgo-Chinoise ** Fabrimetal ** Fédération des Entreprises de Belgique (FEB) ** Fonderie Nationale des Bronzes ** ING ** Société Agefi ** Société Anversoise Foncière et Industrielle ** Soc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
