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    PATENT CO-OPERATION TREATY

    (PCT)
     It is an international treaty, administered by the World Intellectual Property Organization
    (WIPO) that only provides access to member states of Paris Convention for the Protection of
    Industrial Property.
     It is an international patent law treaty which provides an unified procedure for filing patent
    application to protect inventions in each of its member states.
     The basic aim of the PCT was to simplify the procedure of obtaining patent protection in
    several countries and provide a process to all its member states to sign agreements at an
    international level through international applications.
     It provides for a system for filing applications and obtain multiple patents on the basis of a
    single application.
    History of PCT and India

     Washington Diplomatic Conference on the PCT took place on 25th May 1970 and it was
    signed on 19th June 1970.
     The PCT came into force on 24th January 1978 initially with 18 members states.
     As of December 2022, there were 157 member states to the PCT.
     The first international applications under the PCT were filed on 1 st June 1978.
     The PCT was amended in 1979, and modified in 1984 and 2001.
     India joined the PCT in August 1998 by acceding to the Paris Convention on IP.
     The Indian Patent Office has been designated as the receiving office for applications under the
    PCT.
    Purpose and need for the PCT System

     To save effort, time, work and money for applications and national patent offices
     To increase the likelihood of granting deserving patents.
     To facilitate and accelerate access by the public to the technical information contained in documents describing
    new inventions.
     To bring the world within reach.
     To remove major costs and provides users with additional time to consider their various Patent granting options.
     To provide a strong basis to the user for patenting decisions.
     It is effectively used by the world’s major corporations, universities, and research institutions when they seek
    international patent protection.
     To provide an unified procedure to all the member countries to file patents, rather than filing them in every
    country manually by their individual patent offices.
    Application filing procedure

     Applications are filed in two phases, international and national.


     Initially a national patent application is filed in the home country of the applicant.
     Within 12 months from filing national patent application, a PCT application is to be filed with the receiving office
    (RO) of the national or regional patent office OR directly with the RO of WIPO if permitted.

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