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How can a patent’s efficacy be maintained?
In principle, be sure to pay the annual fee in a timely manner so that the patent rights will not go extinct. In case of reporting for invalidation from others, the patentee shall not fail to plead against the reporting and defend the patent rights from being revoked.
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