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Abstracting, reviewing, and translation of the information contained in patent documents
The filing language at ARIPO is English and as such the Harare Protocol on Patents requires that an application (including specification) that is in a foreign language is translated into English by the applicant within 6 months of lodging the application.
Other activities
-Digitization of ARIPO patent documents under the WIPOScan project continued
-Distributed to Member states on CDs
III. SOURCES OF PATENT INFORMATION PROVIDED BY THE OFFICE
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