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The Paris Convention 1883-1967, establishing the International Union for the Protection of Industrial Property.
If no priority date is claimed, the filing date of the application is used instead. For the purposes of this article, we will use priority date as the standard with the implicit understanding that where this does not exist, the filing date will be used instead.
In the UK, as in the US, these include such criteria as novelty inventive step, and industrial applicability, among others.
Although it was possible to request acceleration of the examining procedure, such a request would be entertained only if the comptroller of patents was satisfied that the applicant was suffering substantial hardship, for example, if an infringement was taking place and serious financial loss was occurring.
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Baldock, C., Murphy, C. Building a fast–track patent portfolio in the UK and Europe. Nat Biotechnol 16, 385–386 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt0498-385
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