@article{Budime_Agarwal_2018, title={GERMANY PATENT SYSTEM – AN OVERVIEW}, volume={5}, url={https://ijdra.com/index.php/journal/article/view/197}, DOI={10.22270/ijdra.v5i2.197}, abstractNote={<p>Patent is one of the intellectual property rights, by which the innovator gets exclusive rights or legal monopoly grated to an individual or a firm to make use or sell or reproduce and excluding others from doing so. The Germany patent act came into existence on June 21<sup>st</sup> 1976, which was taken from the European patent convention of October 5, 1973. Germany stands in 2<sup>nd</sup> place in filing patents and it shares 16% of total application in 2016 and 25.086 application are filed, grant of patent applications are 18,728. In this paper discussed about Germany patent system.</p&gt;}, number={2}, journal={International Journal of Drug Regulatory Affairs}, author={Budime, Priyanka and Agarwal, Pooja}, year={2018}, month={Feb.}, pages={13-16} }