PATENT COOPERATION TREATY (PCT) AS A VARIANT OF THE INTERNATIONAL PATENT

Abstract

At the present time, in the era of globalization, the development of civilization is in the direction of having a much stronger international ties. The article deals with an important aspect of these relations — the development and selection of international
patenting procedure. In the field of protection of industrial property such as inventions and utility models, to the number of international treaties is the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT). This agreement is the basis of PCT, which in turn provides a unified procedure for filing patent applications to protect inventions in each of the Contracting States. A patent application filed under the PCT, is called an international application or application PCT. The aim of the article is to reveal the potential of international patenting the example of the most common on today’s PCT system and, consequently, the possibility of further development of a unified international patent.