Patent Laws in Netherlands

A patent is a right and the patentee, the individual who has obtained a patent granted by the government, which has an exclusive right of use on his or her invention. This means that the patentee can prohibit others from using the discovery and dealing in products containing the discovery. The patent system of Netherlands is an exchange system, which provides the protection of the discovery made of public.

Patent law protects creative concepts, that have an industrial application and grants the inventor exclusive right to prevent others from using, making, and selling the patented invention for a fixed period of time in return for the inventor disclosing the details of the invention to the public. A patent rewards the investment of time, effort and money associated with research. It encourages investment and innovation in patented invention by allowing companies to recover their research and development costs during the period of exclusive rights.

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