Talk:International Patent Institute

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"The Hague"[edit]

Despite the fact that the European Patent Convention provides that the European Patent Office shall have a branch at The Hague (art. 6(2) EPC), the "The Hague" office is actually situated in Rijswijk, a town close to The Hague that is (and always was) a separate minicipality with its own mayor, with 47.000 inhabitants. Previously I wrote "suburb" but that word is inappropriate since a suburb is part of the city it is a suborb of Rbakels (talk) 05:47, 16 May 2012 (UTC) (message updated in 2020)[reply]

Thanks! --Edcolins (talk) 19:46, 23 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]