Patent Law

AP confused on PCT process?

By Lawrence B. Ebert, Esq.

IPBiz suggests it wise to make one's national stage filings by the 30 (or 31) month deadline, if one seeks patent protection.

The AP was otherwise talking about a decline in the rate of PCT filings: Almost 164,000 international patents [sic: applications] were filed through the World Intellectual Property Organization [WIPO] last year, about 2.4 percent more than in 2007.

During the previous three years international filings grew by an average of 9.3 percent.

***Meanwhile, AP also reports

In recent months the [Consumer Confidence] index has hit its lowest troughs since it began in 1967, and is hovering at less than half its level of January 2007, when it was 87.3.

Full post as published by IPBiz on January 27, 2009 (boomark / email).