Summary: A quick look at the (relative) irrelevance of Baltic states to the EPO, where they enjoy a vote as powerful as that of the UK, France, Germany and other large economies with hundreds of thousands of patents
"The national Patent Offices of the Baltic States publish official statistics relating to "IP" protection," a reader has told us. "Most of the registration activity is in the area of "trademarks" and "designs", with very little under "patents"."
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