Get Pctro101 Priority Claim Form

A priority claim is made to an earlier-filed patent application. For example, an Applicant can claim priority in a later-filed patent application to earlier-filed U.S. provisional applications, U.S. nonprovisional applications, PCT applications, and/or foreign (i.e., non-U.S. Paris Convention signatory) applications.

It is also possible to file the PCT application first before any national application. The PCT application can be filed through a receiving office in PCT member countries, such as the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office or through the international bureau at WIPO.

The request for priority document may be made on the request form by marking the appropriate set of check-boxes in Box No. VI, or by making a request to that effect on any other paper, such as a letter accompanying the international application or on the fee calculation sheet.

Priority date refers to the earliest filing date in a family of patent applications. If the earliest-filed patent application for a particular invention was a provisional application, then the filing date of the provisional is your priority date.

Form PCT/RO/101 (declaration sheet (iv)) (July 2022) Declaration of inventorship (Rules 4.17(iv) and 51bis. 1(a)(iv)) for the purposes of the designation of the United States of America: I hereby declare that I believe I am the original inventor or an original joint inventor of a claimed invention in the application.

However, a subsequent application for the same subject matter as the previous first application filed in or for the same State will be considered as the first application for priority purposes if, when this subsequent application was filed, the first application had been withdrawn, abandoned or refused, without being ...

(1) The international application may contain a declaration, as prescribed in the Regulations, claiming the priority of one or more earlier applications filed in or for any country party to the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property.