Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) offers you to protect your inventions abroad. The PCT was concluded in 1970, amended in 1979, and modified in 1984 and 2001. The PCT is Multinational Treaty, administrated by the International Bureau of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), whose headquarters are in Geneva (Switzerland).

The PCT filing facility provides you to protect your invention with effect in several States, instead of filing several separate National and or regional Patents.

The Treaty makes it possible to seek patent protection for an invention simultaneously in each of a large number of countries by filing an "international" patent application. Such an application may be filed by anyone who is a national or resident of a Contracting State (132 Contracting States). It may generally be filed with the national patent office of the Contracting State of which the applicant is a national or resident or, at the applicant's option, with the International Bureau of WIPO in Geneva.

Mr. Nehal M. Raval

RAVAL & CO.

Proprietor, RAVAL & CO.
Ahmedabad, India

Free Member, Joined :03/20/2009
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