14It should be recalled, in this connection, that the notion of proceedings ‘concerned with the registration or validity of patents’ contained in Article 16(4) of the Convention must be regarded as an independent concept intended to have uniform application in all the Contracting States (Case 288/82 Duijnstee [1983] ECR 3663, paragraph 19).
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