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Austria
Patent Act 1970 StF: Federal Law Gazette No. 259/1970 (WV) as amended by Federal Law Gazette No. 137/1971 (DFB)
The amendment Federal Law Gazette I No. 149/2004 changed the structure of the patent application procedure (formal grant, publication of patent applications after 18 months) and combined the fee provisions regulated in individual acts into a single act. The amendment Federal Law Gazette I No. 126/2013 changed the system of instances in connection with invention protection rights. The second instance is now the Vienna Higher Regional Court; if a third instance decides, this is the Supreme Court. The amendment Federal Law Gazette I No. 71/2016 abolished the dual structure of the Patent Office and dissolved the partial legal capacity. Furthermore, it was clarified that not only conventional breeding methods of animals and plants are excluded from patenting, but also the conventionally bred animals and plants themselves.
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