The Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) assists applicants in seeking patent protection internationally for their inventions, helps patent offices with their patent granting decisions, and facilitates public access to a wealth of technical information relating to those inventions.
By filing one international patent application under the PCT, applicants can simultaneously seek protection for an invention in alarge number of countries.
ePCTwith strong authentication provides online access to the file of your international application and a suite of functions to facilitate monitoring and management during the international phase.
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Published international applications are available onPATENTSCOPE,one of WIPO's global databases. This database also includes patent documents from78 participating Officesproviding public access, free of charge to over 112 million technology disclosures.