Questions tagged [pct]
Questions related to The Patent Cooperation Treaty based applications.
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to patent world wide or is one country good enough?
If my patent is published in U.K. how much time do I have to file the same patent in other countries? Why would it be a race to file in other countries anyway?
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Patent filing via international PCT system
After filing an US application how much time should the applicant wait to file a PCT application?
What are the benefits of filing early or late?
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Can a PCT application, filed with piority, be withdrawn and refiled, and retain the original, now lapsed, priority?
I have filed a US provisional patent application last year. I filed a US non-provisional and PCT applications within the 12 month limit of the provisional and claimed the provisional as priority. The ...
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Is there any consequences if I don't amend claims properly before the PCT deadline?
PCT application claims can be amended one time via Article 19 and 34.
From my understanding, one can amend claims in the national phase. So what is the point of having limitation in PCT?
In US, one ...
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Which countries require a claim for using a PPA as priority date?
The book Patent It Yourself states:
I recommend that your PPA contain at least one claim (to) prevent any challenge to your PPA by foreign patent offices for failure to claim the invention as of ...
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Is 12-month Paris Convention priority claim deadline extendable?
This question asks if a priority claim under the Paris Convention can be made after the 12-month deadline, and the accepted answer is 'no'. However, I wanted to ask again if this is really the case. ...
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Can a product patented in US be manufactured in India
If a product in patented in USA but not in India, can we manufacture the same product in India.
If we can manufacture then What could be the implications? Because India and USA both comes under ...
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What is difference between PCT and EP and can they be disputed?
I need to know what these are exactly and if they are enforceable. Is there a way to know if the PCT has an expire date or how many times it's been filed and published? Or how to know if anyone has ...
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patent life of a PCT application and royality thereof
In a scenario where:
a. NP (of invention "1001") is first filed in a foreign country (non-US Country, on 1 Jan 2017) and then a PCT is filed(on 31 Dec 2017), when will patent life begin for invention ...
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