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Does screening provide 100% assurance?

No; no screening can give complete assurance. Intellectual property registers show a snapshot in time: patent applications not yet published — the eighteen-month confidentiality period — un…

Updated · July 20261 min readCategory · Pre-Trade-Fair Rights Analysis
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No — unregistered rights and unpublished applications may remain. The aim is not to bring the risk to zero, but to make the known and discoverable risks manageable.

No; no screening can give complete assurance. Intellectual property registers show a snapshot in time: patent applications not yet published — the eighteen-month confidentiality period — unregistered but protected rights, and parallel applications in other countries may not appear at all. The purpose of screening is therefore not to reduce the risk to zero but to make the known and discoverable risks visible and manageable.

Where a conflict under the Industrial Property Law (No. 6769) is spotted early, options such as modifying the product, taking a licence or rearranging the stand can be weighed before the fair rather than during it. The screening result is then completed by allocating the remaining uncertainty contractually and, where it fits, by insurance. You go to the fair with a risk that is known and priced instead of a surprise.

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