What is the advantage of filing a PCT (patent cooperation treaty) application over the US patent filing? We in India can not afford fees structures of USPTO and the attorneys!
PCT route of filing enables an inventor to club all the applications to be filed in different countries and go through a single process. It is advantageous over foreign filing as in that case he/she has to follow different complex and cumbersome procedures in the opted countries, thus PCT makes the process simple, cost-effective and efficient (less time consuming). Through PCT one can file a patent in a no. of countries (in addition to USA). However, PCT system applies to filing and search, afterwards it forwards the applications to concerned countries and the concerned Patent Office entertain it.
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