General Format: Inventor1, Inventor2, et al. Title of patent. Patent number (include country code, the word “Patent”, and patent number with retained commas), date of filing (format Month Date, Year), and issued date of publication (format Month Date, Year).
You may apply for a U.S. patent whether you're a U.S. citizen or not. No U.S. patent can be issued if, before you apply in the United States, the invention was patented abroad by you or your legal representative and if the foreign application was filed more than 12 months before the U.S. filing.
Intellectual property ( IP ) rights are territorial. They only give protection in the countries where they are granted or registered. If you only have UK protection, others may be allowed to use your IP abroad without infringing your rights.
Although the WO designation itself does not confer patent rights, it simplifies the process by offering a common standard across the 184 PCT member countries, including the U.S., China, and European nations.
Is a patent valid in every country? Patents are territorial rights. In general, the exclusive rights are only applicable in the country or region in which a patent has been filed and granted, in ance with the law of that country or region.
A patent is valid in the particular country in which it is granted and for a certain period of time, generally 20 years from the date of filing the patent application.
Country codes CCName VN Vietnam WO World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) YU Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro) ZA South Africa92 more rows
Since the rights granted by a U.S. patent extend only throughout the territory of the United States and have no effect in a foreign country, an inventor who wishes patent protection in other countries must apply for a patent in each of the other countries or in regional patent offices.