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After fifty years of trial and error, litigation and diplomatic stand-offs, innovators can finally apply for a unitary patent that protects intellectual property in up to 25 EU countries at the same time. By over-riding the requirement to register patents country-by-country, the new system aims to make it easier and cheaper for inventors to protect their inventions. Until now, the fragmented system meant many inventors only secured patent protection in a handful of countries.

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