Chapter 4 of Page Code Sharing - Time limit for PCT international application to enter 30 national phases

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Time limit for PCT international application to enter 30 national phases

The Patent Cooperation Treaty was first held at the Diplomatic Conference in Washington in June 1970, and finally came into effect on January 24, 1978. The first batch of 18 contracting countries served as an alternative to the traditional patent system, the Paris Convention system. Replenish. In essence, the PCT is a cooperative symbol that aims to simplify and unify standards for filing, searching, formal examination, and disclosure of technical solutions for global patent applications. Therefore, the PCT application itself only involves "submission" and not "authorization". If you want to obtain the protection of rights from various countries, you must go to the patent office of each country to implement it.

Therefore, in the PCT international application procedure, the time node for entering the national phase of each country is extremely important. If the patent applicant misses this deadline, he will not be able to protect and implement the patent application that he needs to protect. In the global promotion of the Patent Cooperation Treaty, the PCT regulations are constantly being revised to make the laws more favorable and looser to patent applicants. Different countries also have different remedies for patent applicants who miss time limits.

Today, Page Code summarizes the entry time limits for the 30 main target countries for Chinese applicants.

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