I`m familiar with the 12-month max period between US application and PCT application, which has nothing to do with US patent prosecution.PCT patents are expensive and may not be necessary if you haven`t sold your products yet, because even a US patent is usefless unless your product sells. 90-98% of all patents don`t make any money. Your mileage may vary.
Then you have until Juy to file international patent apps, unless you had filed provisional patent app before that. It`s 12 months period after PPA to file PCT apps.
the NATIONAL patents exist for these countries. A PCT patent application simplifies national filing and postpones translation - it does NOT provide an "international patent." I know - I file them.
It`s not my intent to argue with you but to correct a common misunderstanding about patent law. You can accept the information or not - as you prefer. There are national patents for many specific countries, but no international patents. I have gone through the process.
By international patent - I`m bundling a patent for UK, a patent for China, etc etc etc - the US government thinks they exist . html
Patents are not bundled. There is no other way to say this. It may be clear to you what you mean, but it is not clear to me and probably most others that may be interested in actually learning something. Good luck with that bundled patent.
We agree. The word that I use, and that lawyers in this area use, is "national" or maybe "foreign national" to refer to non-US national phase. You may be aware that "international" prosecution is broken up into an internation phase and one or more national phases that result in [hopefully] one or more national patents. I am willing to bet that most others in this group are not aware of that.
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By international patent - I`m bundling a patent for UK, a patent for China, etc etc etc - the US government thinks they exist . html
Patents are not bundled. There is no other way to say this. It may be clear to you what you mean, but it is not clear to me and probably most others that may be interested in actually learning something. Good luck with that bundled patent.