Please provide some useful information about the following:

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Country: The Philippines

-Obtaining a patent

-Obtaining a patent in more than one country

-The European patent procedure at the EPO

-Cost of obtaining a patent

-Trade secrets

-Patents as a source of technical information

-Performing a simple patent search

Thank you Tutor!