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- Speeding up UK patent applications
- The trade mark symbol
- What is a Community Registered Design (CRD)?
- What is a European Patent?
- What is a European Trade Mark (EUTM)?
- Can a patent be restored after renewal payments are missed?
- Intellectual Property Solicitors
- Use of Reference Numerals in Patent Specifications
- Claim amendments during PCT application procedure
- Licence as of right
- What are the implications of Brexit on IP rights?
- Excess claim and page fees
- Legal protection for coats of arms
- Trade mark notice of threatened oppposition TM7A
- UK Trade Mark Invalidation
- Early Requests for Unitary Patent
- The importance of a UK address for service
International patent applications under the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) provide a single international procedure for searching and examining an invention in a single language.
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Since inception of the PCT in 1978, the number of international patent applications filed has risen year-on-year and new states join the PCT system typically at the rate of one or two per year. As of November 2017, there were 152 individual PCT contracting states which includes all of the major industrialised nations of the world.
For more information on the opportunities provided to amend claims during the international and national phases of the PCT patent application procudure, please download our white paper: 'Claim amendments during the international patent application procedure' using the link below.
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