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The London Agreement
As an effective method of cutting down post-grant translation costs, a number of key contracting states to the EPC adopted the London Agreement on 17 October 2000. But only on 1 May 2008, following ratification and accession procedures in national parliaments, did the Agreement eventually enter into force.