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Norwegian Board of Appeal for Industrial Property Rights

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01.04.2013 Founding by complex reorganization

Name: Norwegian Board of Appeal for Industrial Property Rights
Short name: KFIR
Affiliations: Other public administration body
Hierarchical level: Highest level
COFOG 04 Economic affairs
Main affiliation category: National single organization (without subordinated units)
Located: 301 Oslo

The Norwegian Board of Appeal for Industrial Property Rights is an independent, court-like, body under the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Fisheries. The Board of Appeal re-examines and re-evaluates appeals on decisions from the Norwegian Industrial Property Office within patent, trademark and design rights, as well as decisions in relation to company names, the act of precious metals, and the regulations on hallmarks. Additionally the Board of Appeal re-examines and makes decisions on some of the decisions issued by the Plant Variety Board.

01.01.2014 No change to unit, but change of superior

(The unit reports to a new superior organization because the previous superior organization was terminated at the same time.)

Remarks

* = If a date is denoted with an asterisk (*), this implies that the date is not confirmed.

* = If a name is denoted with an asterisk (*), this implies a direct translation from Norwegian to English. The translation is thus not necessarily the official one (if any exists at all).

Comment to the change-of-name event: Sometimes the old and new name is the same. This occur when the translation to English haven’t taken into consideration minor Norwegian name change.

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