Patent Family And Legal Status Searching
Posted on March 18, 2008 - Filed Under Legal and Law | Leave a Comment
Patent family is a group of patents which, are all related to each other, in this case by way of the priority or priorities of a particular patent document. Since patents protection is territorial, thus if a company or an individual that wants to protect its invention in a particular or multiple countries must apply for patent protection in those countries — either by filing national patent applications, or by making the application via one of the multi-national routes (EP or PCT application).
The Paris convention for the protection of Intellectual Property in 1883 directs that:
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