Information Concerning Corresponding Foreign Application for Patents

The Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) of the World Intellectual Property Organization
( WIPO) allows nationals and residents of a PCT Contracting State to obtain patent
protection for an invention or utility model (depending on whether the Contracting State
has the option of a utility model) simultaneously in the 152 PCT Contracting States, by
filing only one (1) application instead of filing in each country where the protection
model is available.

PROCEDURE:

International Phase

 Filing
 International Search
 International Publication
 International Preliminary Examination

National Phase

- After the International Phase, you start to pursue the grant of your patents
directly before the national (or regional) patent Offices of the countries
wherein you want to obtain them.

Patent (Description)

- A patent is an exclusive right that allows the inventor to exclude others from
making, using, or selling the product of his invention during the life of the
patent.

3 conditions set by Intellectual Property Code of the Philippines for an invention

to be deemed patentable:

 It has to be new
 Involves an inventive step
 Industrially applicable

TERM OF PROTECTION

- The term of a patent shall be twenty (20) years from the filing date of the
application. The patent must be maintained yearly, starting from the 5th year.