How to choose international application for protection and why to choose PCT patent application procedure?

When an applicant from China files an international application through the PCT channel, all PCT member countries are automatically designated, that is, the international application is valid in all PCT member countries. Why do you choose PCT patent application program 1? How to choose international protection? At present, the number of PCT member countries has reached 126. These countries include the United States, Japan, Canada, Russia and other industrialized countries, all parties to the European Patent Convention, and developing countries such as South Korea and Brazil, covering almost all the important countries in the world that have implemented the patent system. When an applicant from China files an international application through the PCT channel, all PCT member countries are automatically designated, that is, the international application is valid in all PCT member countries. Second, why choose the PCT patent application procedure? China applicants can obtain the following main benefits through the PCT program: 1. Applicants can apply in Chinese; 2. The applicant may file an application with the Chinese Patent Office, requesting foreign countries (PCT member countries) to grant patent protection; 3. The applicant only needs to submit a set of Chinese (or English) application documents to the Chinese Patent Office to determine the application date of the application, which is regarded as an application filed in each designated country on the same day; 4. Before entering the national phase of each country, the applicant has obtained the international search report and preliminary examination opinions. Through this information, the applicant can preliminarily judge the prospect of the application being granted a patent right in patent offices in various countries, so as to decide whether it is necessary to continue the national phase; 5. Delayed entry into the national stage, so that the applicant can decide whether it is necessary to enter the scheduled designated country according to the market prospect and technical information, and have sufficient decision-making time to make the investment of large sums of money more accurate.