Tuesday, September 29, 2009 Thailand to become a member of the PCTAs of December 24, 2009, Thailand will become part of the PCT. This means that for all PCT applications filed on or after December 24, 2009, an applicant may file national stage applications in Thailand up to 30 months after the priority date. Sunday, May 03, 2009 International Patent Application Registry ScamsA client recently contacted me about letters that they had received offering to register a published PCT patent application. The letter contained all of the particulars of the application and requested wire transfers of over 1500 EU. This organization offered to register the application on their database. Apparently this was not an isolated instance. This was discussed on the Patent Baristas blog. Further details about this are provided on the wipo website.
Sunday, March 15, 2009 New PCT CountriesAs of June 2, 2009 for Chile (CL) and June 9, 2009 for Peru (PE), an international application filed will automatically designate these two countries. For further information, see the March PCT newsletter at http://www.wipo.int/pct/en/newslett/2009/03/article_0001.html. |