1. Application by the International / Regional Treaties
Patent: through the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) to apply for an international application, the completion of the
international search, modify, publicly and preliminary examination, the protection of the country within 30 months from the
priority date, the applicant expect handling procedures for entering the national phase review, and by these countries in
accordance with their respective laws, and then granted a patent.
1) The advantage is that, when close to 30 months before entering the desire to protect the country, there is sufficient time to
consider the business, the market value of the patent value and national. Special attention to the design does not apply to
international applications through the PCT route.
2) Trademark: the Madrid Agreement or Protocol member countries in Madrid international trademark registration. If a
member of the Madrid Agreement, the trademark application must have been registered in our country; a member of the
Madrid Protocol, apply for a trademark already registered or apply trademark.
3) European patent application through the European Treaty, designs and trade marks
European Patent: According to the European Patent Convention, be accepted by the European Patent Office application for
review of authorization. European creative new invention, granted a European patent, if the applicant wishes to apply
European region or country in more than three patents, the treaty will make an application more quickly, the economy
compared to the States Parties basis
European design: consultation by the European Trademarks and Designs Office (OHIM) to register under the Community
Designs Act, the registration certificate issued within about 3-5 months; a European design covering the whole of the
European Union's unity Register do not need to be registered in each country. If invalidated, within the European Union as a
whole, are invalid. The protection period is five years from the filing date, and can be renewed up to 4 times, each time for five
years, a total of 25 years.
European Trademark: European trademark and design Coordination Bureau (OHIM) under the European Community
Trademark application for registration, about 1-2 months of receipt of registered notice,18-20 months of admissibility, 3
months the objection period; a European trademark covering the whole of the European Union's unity registered without
registration in various countries. The types of products, services, three-dimensional, color, smell, sound, collective marks.
Currently, the European Union, including Britain, Germany, France, Italy, Belgium, Luxembourg, Denmark, Switzerland,
Spain. Portugal, Finland, Greece, Austria, the Netherlands, Ireland, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia,
Malta, Poland, Bulgaria Slovakia, Slovenia, Liechtenstein, Turkey, Iceland, Morocco, Romania and other Member States.
2. A Seprate Application in Countries
1) the State Intellectual Property Office/Trademark Office to submit the application filing date in the case of the priority date;
2) Within 12 months {inventions, utility models) or 6 months (appearance, TM), from the from the priority date of the
application by the foreign agency to expect the country to obtain the protection of intellectual property institutions to submit a
separate application, review of the application by these countries in accordance with their respective laws, and thus
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