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                                Procedure I Advantages I Power of Attorney  
ADVANTAGES OF PCT
The procedure under the PCT has great advantages for you as an applicant, for the patent Offices and for the general Public.
Use of the PCT saves effort—time, work, money—for any person or firm (“the applicant”) seeking protection for an invention in a number of countries.
Use of the PCT also helps the applicant to make decisions about the prosecution of the application before the various national Patent Offices in the national phase of processing.
The saving arises primarily from the fact that, under the PCT, the applicant files one application—the international application—in one place, in one language and pays one initial set of fees, and that this international application has the effect of a national or regional application, which, without the PCT, he would have to file separately for each country or region.
You have up to 18 months more than if you had not used the PCT to reflect on the desirability of seeking protection in foreign countries, to appoint local patent agents in each foreign country, to prepare the necessary translations and to pay the national fees
You can rest assured that, if your international application is in the form prescribed by the PCT, it cannot be rejected on formal grounds by any PCT Contracting State patent Office during the national phase of the processing of the application
on the basis of the international search report and the written opinion, you can evaluate with reasonable probability the chances of your invention being patented
You have the possibility during the optional international preliminary examination to amend the international application and thus put it in order before processing by the various patent Offices
The search and examination work of patent Offices can be considerably reduced or eliminated thanks to the international search report, the written opinion and, where applicable, the international preliminary report on patentability that accompany the international application
Since each international application is published together with an international search report, third parties are in a better position to formulate a well-founded opinion about the potential patentability of the claimed invention
For you as an applicant, international publication puts the world on notice of your application, which can be an effective means of advertising and looking for potential licensees.
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