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- ↑ United States Patent and Trademark Office - World's Five Largest Intellectual Property Offices (IP5) Meet in Silicon Valley June 6, 2013 Archived September 5, 2015, at the Wayback Machine Retrieved September 25, 2015
- ↑ "IP5 Patent Prosecution Highway (IP5 PPH) | fiveIPoffices".
- ↑ "IP5 Patent Prosecution Highway (IP5 PPH) | fiveIPoffices".
- ↑ "Key IP5 statistical indicators" (PDF). Patent Information News. 2016 (2). European Patent Office: 9. June 2016. Archived from the original (PDF) on 3 February 2020. Retrieved 19 June 2016.
