“If you don’t invent something, you disappear. If you don’t apply for a patent, you lose.” A statement by Erich Otto Häusler that has lost none of its validity even after many decades. The patent office helps protect your own inventions from imitators. However, patents expire after twenty years. Krone+ shows which ideas and products are now coming back onto the market.
Upper Austrians and Styrians often do it, Lower Austrians and Salzburgers rarely do it, Burgenlanders rarely do it – we are talking about registering a patent with the Austrian Patent Office. Overall, the number of patent applications in Austria has decreased in recent years. Interestingly, however, positive subsidies remained almost constant (see chart below).
Source: Krone
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