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European Intellectual Property Review

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 29, 2023
Entity authorityQ5412694 ↗
Source-derived summary

The European Intellectual Property Review (EIPR) is a monthly law review published since 1978 by Sweet & Maxwell (now part of Thomson Reuters), that covers international intellectual property law. Its general editor since its 1978 inception has been Hugh Brett.

The earliest issues of EIPR, for October to December 1978 lack numbering; volume 1 begins with January 1979. Its initial publisher was ESC Publishing Ltd., subsequently acquired by Sweet & Maxwell Ltd., which Thomson Reuters later acquired.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “European Intellectual Property Review” as journal. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1978, 1979—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1978-01-01. The account is most persuasive where European, Intellectual and Property can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as journal. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 29, 2023. The linked authority identifier is Q5412694. 3 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1978 and 1979.

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This entry incorporates text from “European Intellectual Property Review” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.