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A new study indicates that roughly 35 per cent of jobs in the EU rely on sectors that build their products and services around patents, trademarks and copyright.

A new study measuring the importance of intellectual property (IP) rights in the EU economy has found that about 39 per cent of total economic activity, worth some €4.7 trillion annually, is generated by industries that are reliant on intangible IP assets as the basis of products and services.

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