PCT Filing UK

As a general rule a patent application is supposed to be filed within 12 months from the priority date, but under patent cooperation treaty an application is supposed to be filed within 30 months from the priority date, however in some of the designated countries it is 31 months. A Patent application filed under PCT mainly comprises of two important phases. The first phase is to file the application at UK intellectual property office at Geneva where it is processed through the International authorities of World Intellectual Property Organisation. In the second phase the application is required to be entered into National phase in various countries automatically designated by the international authorities. There are near about 150 countries who are member with the Patent cooperation treaty. Some of the important documents such as international search report, written opinion of the international searching authority, documents related to priority application etc can be collected as soon as the application is published by the international authority. Normally the application is published within 18 months from the filing date. These are the basic details pertaining to the filing of PCT application in UK and various other countries, however in order to acquire more detailed information pertaining to the same it is professional recommended to take the professional services of this site.