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There are two ways in which an applicant can file its patent application outside the United States: (1) file a U.S. patent application and wait six months prior to filing the patent application outside the United States; or (2) file a petition for expedited foreign filing license under 37 C.F.R. § 5.12.

European applications have the format EP X AY, where EP stands for the European Patent Office, X is a serial number, currently with seven digits, A stands for application and Y stands for the publication format.

When a European patent application is published together with the search report, it is known as an A1 publication. When this application is published without the search report, it is an A2 document. The search report is then published later as an A3 document. When the patent is granted, it is published as a B document.

Utility : Patent numbers consist of six, seven or eight digits. Enter the Patent number excluding commas and spaces and omit leading zeroes. Reissue : (e.g., Rennnnnn, RE000126) must enter leading zeroes between "RE" and number to create 6 digits.

Since the rights granted by a U.S. patent extend only throughout the territory of the United States and have no effect in a foreign country, an inventor who wishes patent protection in other countries must apply for a patent in each of the other countries or in regional patent offices.

A PCT international search is a high quality search of the relevant patent documents and other technical literature in those languages in which most patent applications are filed (Chinese, English, German and Japanese, and in certain cases, French, Korean, Russian and Spanish).

European applications have the format EP X AY, where EP stands for the European Patent Office, X is a serial number, currently with seven digits, A stands for application and Y stands for the publication format.

The first filed patent application is prior art to the second filed patent application. On the international stage, this same principle applies. As between two entities that filed a patent for the same invention in two different countries, the person that filed the patent application first would be awarded the patent.

Provisional patent applications, PCT National Stage application filings, design patent applications, and plant patent applications may be filed in PDF format without incurring the surcharge. However, such applications may be filed in DOCX format, if desired. IS DOCX SECURE? Yes, the DOCX format is secure.