How to apply for foreign-related patents? What are the ways to apply for foreign-related patents?

How to apply for foreign-related patents? What are the ways to apply for foreign-related patents? Patents are very important to inventors, but with the country's opening to the outside world, many times we will encounter foreign-related patents. So what is a foreign-related patent? We need to clarify the way for inventors to apply for foreign-related patents. How to apply for foreign-related patents? What are the ways to apply for foreign-related patents? The foreign-related patent application route is 1, and the Paris convention route. Most countries in the world are members of the Paris Convention. According to the provisions of the Paris Convention on priority, any member country can enjoy the priority of 12 months when applying to other member countries after applying for an invention or utility model, and the priority of 6 months when applying for a design. Any disclosure or use of the application during this period will not affect the novelty of the application. As China is a member of the Paris Convention, after applying for a patent in China, China applicants can claim the priority by using the provisions of the Paris Convention on priority when applying for a patent abroad. Ways to apply for foreign-related patents. Patent Cooperation Treaty (pct) is a special treaty under the Paris Convention, which is managed by the World Intellectual Property Organization. Its member countries are all members of the Paris Convention, which has reached 178 at present. According to the provisions of pct, a patent application filed in any pct member country can be regarded as an application filed in other designated member countries at the same time. It has realized the application in one country and is effective in many countries. The examination and approval procedure of pct application is divided into international stage and national stage. In the international stage, acceptance, publication, retrieval and preliminary examination are carried out, while in the national stage, examination and authorization are carried out by specific national bureaus. The time for pct application to enter a specific national phase is within 30 months from the date of application. In this way, when the applicant wants an invention to be protected by more than five countries (generally more than five), it is very suitable to use the pct approach. Because only one international application needs to be submitted to the Chinese Patent Office through the pct channel, it saves the trouble of submitting national applications to various countries, and has more time to consider which specific countries to enter eventually. Pct method is not suitable for design. The applicant can judge the patentability (novelty, creativity and practicality) of the invention according to the existing technical data mentioned in the international search report and the international preliminary examination report, and can make appropriate amendments to the claim (if necessary), and then decide whether to enter the national procedure. Ways to apply for foreign-related patents. The state does not require direct application for priority to foreign countries. In addition, some countries or regions are not members of the Paris Convention and pct, and can only apply for patents according to the requirements of their own laws. For example, Taiwan Province Province is not a member of pct, and Chinese mainland and Taiwan Province Province do not support priority. Ways to apply for foreign-related patents. Application for the grant of a European patent convention was made. 1973 was signed in Munich on June 5, and 1977/kloc-0 came into effect on October 7. The European Patent Convention established the European patent system, aiming at strengthening the cooperation among European countries in the field of industrial property rights, so as to obtain patent protection in several contracting States or all contracting States through a single authorization procedure. 1977, the European patent office was established according to the European patent convention. Its duty is to provide patent protection to the member countries of the European Patent Organization according to individual patent applications and unified patent authorization procedures, so that invention patents can be protected in one, several or all contracting countries. If the applicant intends to apply for a patent in more than three European regions or countries, it will be faster and more economical to adopt this treaty than to apply to each contracting state one by one. Ways of applying for foreign-related patents. Apply for European joint design. From April 1 2003, industrial designs in the EU will be registered through a single safety protection system. The application for industrial design registration will be reviewed by ohim for a short time, and the registration certificate will be issued in about three months. The industrial design registration certificate will be recognized by all EU countries, including Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom. The initial registration period of industrial design is five years, but it can be extended for five years, and the longest extension period can reach 25 years. How to apply for foreign-related patents? What are the ways to apply for foreign-related patents? We are here to answer this question for you. If you want to apply for a foreign-related patent, please contact our online customer service or call Bajie Intellectual Property National Free Service Hotline. 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