[Commons-Law] Table of Countries when Product Patents were introduced

[Shishir K Jha]

1. Table of Countries with year when Product Patents were introduced.

I am sorry I did not attach the table in my previous mail.

Most western countries except US have rather recently adopted the product
patents - see table below.

Country	           Year Of Granting Product Patent
England                  1949
France	                 1958
West Germany	         1968
Japan	                 1976
Switzerland	         1977
Holland, Italy, Sweden	 1978
Canada, Denmark	         1983
Austria                  1987
Greece, Norway Portugal,
Spain                    1992
Finland 	         1995

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Shishir K. Jha