This webinar is designed to introduce participants to the advantages and disadvantages various international patent protection mechanisms, including the advantages of and practical use of WIPO’s PCT System.
This webinar focuses on typical mistakes made by applicants when preparing and filing PCT applications and in the international phase. Representatives of Offices which function as International Authority will provide their information about mistakes made by applicants in international applications processing by Offices.
This webinar focuses on:|• criteria on patentability applied in the international phase, its definition and meanings;|• differences between novelty and inventive step;|• whether an international search can be carried out when the invention lacks the criterion of "industrial applicability";|• list of subject matter for which international search and international preliminary examination aren’t conducted;|• checking of patentability when the claims comprise several inventions.
The objectives of this event are:|- Raising awareness of the PCT system;|- Promoting gender equality in CACEEC and in the world;|- Involving more and more women in developing and applying intellectual property in their countries and in the world;|- Helping nationals and/or residents from CACEEC and Russian-speaking applicants to stay abreast of advantages of procedural safeguards to ensure that available tools of the PCT are cleverly used.
The objectives of these event are:| Raising awareness of the PCT system;| Helping nationals and/or residents from|CACEEC and Russian-speaking applicants to|stay abreast of advantages of procedural|safeguards to ensure that available tools of the|PCT are cleverly used.