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Corporation
A concern is a large grouping of companies whose primary activity is industrial production, having its own powerful sales apparatus through trade branches and a branched, diversified structure of companies within the group, united through a participation system
Source: "Recommendations on Issues of Expertise of Applications for Inventions and Utility Models" (approved by Order of Rospatent dated March 31, 2004, No. 43) (edition from November 30, 2009)