Get January 2004 Revision Of Patent Cooperation Treaty Application Procedure (rin 0651-ab61). Extracted

The two treaties were the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property and the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT). Both treaties will be binding on India as of December 7, 1998. With these accessions, there are now 151 countries which are party to the Paris Convention and 98 countries party to the PCT.

The PCT is an international treaty administered by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), signed at a diplomatic conference held in Washington, D.C. in June 1970 and intended as an alternative to the traditional patent system.

Not everyone is allowed to file a PCT application. There must be at least one applicant who is a resident or national of a country that is a member of the PCT. The residences and nationalities of the applicants also determine where the PCT application can be filed.

The Treaty makes it possible to seek patent protection for an invention simultaneously in each of a large number of countries by filing an "international" patent application. Such an application may be filed by anyone who is a national or resident of a Contracting State.

What is the Patent Cooperation Treaty? The Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) is an international treaty administered by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). Under the PCT system, you may file for a patent in as many as 153 member countries through a single international application filed in Canada.

The PCT system is composed of two main phases: a single, international phase, followed by one or more national phases.

Procedure Filing. The first step of the procedure consists in filing an international (patent) application with a competent patent office, called a Receiving Office (RO). ... Search and written opinion. ... Publication. ... Optional examination. ... Substantive conditions of patentability. ... National and regional phases.