38As regards, first of all, the objective of Directive 2004/48, it is clear from recitals 10 and 13 of that directive, respectively, that that objective is to approximate the laws of the Member States so as to ensure a high, equivalent and homogeneous level of protection of intellectual property in the internal market and that the scope of that directive must be defined as widely as possible in order to encompass all the intellectual property rights covered by the provisions of EU law in that field or by the national law of the Member State concerned.
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