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What does the exit of Greece mean for the IP professionals within the European Union? Does this mean that patent or trademark examiners from Greece in the European patent office need to leave their jobs? This might affect also other supranational institutions. Just curious.
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The Grexit only involves that Greece would leave the euro-zone (and then become a member state of the European Union without the euro as coin, i.e. comparable to the UK or Denmark.
Since such a Grexit would not influence the EU membership, this would also change nothing with respect to the status of Greek citizens within Europe: they would still be able to become Examiners in the European instituations.
Even if Greece would leave the European Union (which is highly unlikely), this would not affect the status of Greece under the European Patent Convention, since also non-EU members may be (and actually are) members of the EPC, such as Switzerland, Iceland and Turkey.
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