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The Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) is an international patent law treaty, concluded in 1970. It provides a unified procedure for filing patent applications to protect inventions in each of its contracting states. A patent application filed under the PCT is called an international application, or PCT application.
PCT Patent Cooperation Treaty, Washington, 1970-06-19, came into force 1978-01-24 [2] Budapest Budapest Treaty on the International Recognition of the Deposit of Microorganisms for the Purposes of Patent Procedure, Budapest, 1977-04-28, came into force 1980-08-19 [3] TRIPS
The PCT Gazette is a weekly bilingual publication of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). It is published by the International Bureau of WIPO pursuant to Article 55 of the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT), [ 1 ] which provides a system for filing international ( patent ) applications .
Important changes to the PCT are mentioned and explained in the PCT Newsletter. The first issue of the PCT Newsletter was published in March 1994 on a subscription basis. [2] [3] Since January 1997, the issues are published online, free of charge. [3] Since January 2008, the PCT Newsletter is available only online, and no longer as a paper ...
In 2001, WIPO launched PATENTSCOPE as an online service to provide free access to international patent documents. The database initially focused on the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) applications, which are international patent applications filed under the PCT system. In 2008, it was transformed into a search system for not only published PCT ...
The WIPO Academy is the training arm of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), it was established in 1998. [140] It offers intellectual property (IP) education, training and IP skills-building to government officials , inventors , creators, business professionals, small and medium enterprises (SMEs), academics, students and ...
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Another key treaty is the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT), administered by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and covering more than 150 countries. The Patent Cooperation Treaty provides a unified procedure for filing patent applications to protect inventions in each of its contracting states along with giving owners a 30-month ...