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Six options to consider before your provisional patent expires
A provisional patent application expires 12 months after the filing date. As this deadline approaches, the applicant must decide what …
Warning for companies about confidentiality agreements
Many companies, particularly in the manufacturing and investment industries, often receive unsolicited ideas. Perhaps your company has experienced this. The …
Leaving your IP legacy: to whom will you pass down your intellectual property?
An often forgotten issue during estate planning is that copyrights (as well as patents and trademarks) are personal property. As …
Using Article 19 and Article 34 in patent amendments
After a PCT applicant receives a search report and written opinion, he may wish to respond to the Examiner’s comments …
Racing to the patent office
The AIA has started a race to the patent office. This will be especially true for technologies where several inventors, …
Should I file a national or regional application for foreign patent protection?
The decision between filing a national application or a regional application involves numerous factors: the number of countries where protection …
ePCT
As of July 2012, the ePCT application of WIPO provides secure online access to PCT application files. (It is the …
Publication of PCT applications
PCT applications publish in the same manner as national or domestic patent applications. There is an internet publication of the …
Choosing the International Search Authority (ISA)
For a PCT application, the patent office that performs the search on the invention is called the International Search Authority …