Companies should consider budgetary constraints are and determine where foreign filing applications may make the most economical sense for the long term. Second, companies should see where and what their market base is, as it is important to protect intellectual property rights where there invention is are sold, manufactured, and purchased in order to prevent [...]

The Patent Cooperation Treaty (referred to hereinafter as “PCT”) is an international treaty that authorizes the filing of a single patent application to be treated as being filed in multiple countries. An applicant may file a PCT application pursuant to the PCT rules, and the PCT application will act as a word-wide patent application where [...]

The United States is a member nation of the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property. As a note, most of developed nations are part of the Paris Convention, including Japan, China, Russia, European nations, Mexico, US, etc. As a member nation, US applicants may apply for a patent in any of the signatory [...]

The first difference between US and foreign patent laws is that the US provides a one year grace period between the time an applicant discloses his invention to the public via newsletters, blogs, youtube, etc. and the time the applicant files a patent. In foreign patent prosecution, if an applicant discloses his invention to the [...]