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Patent Box: qualifying companies: qualifying IP rights: EEA qualifying patent jurisdictions
The Patent Box is extended to other EEA states which have similar examination and patentability criteria as the UK. A list of qualifying patent jurisdictions, together with a description of the types of patent rights, has been published in exercise of the power conferred by CTA10/S357BB(1)(c) and (7), SI 2013/420 Profits from Patents (EEA Rights) Order 2013, and are as follows:
| * Austria |
| * Bulgaria |
| * Czech Republic |
| * Denmark |
| * Estonia |
| * Finland |
| * Germany |
| * Hungary |
| * Poland |
| * Portugal |
| * Romania |
| * Slovakia |
| * Sweden |