Patents Foreign

Has the Invention Been the Subject of a Prior Foreign Patent Although one cannot be sure when, or even whether, a patent wiU issue from any appHcation, it is good practice to make sure your U.S. patent appHcation is filed within 12 months of the first foreign filed appHcation. The patenting of an invention in another country by the inventor or another party wiU preclude the issuance of a patent on the same invention in the United States. 

For many years, the method of obtaining foreign patent protection corresponding to a U.S. patent appHcation was to file separate, individual patent apphcations in selected foreign countries. Each of the appHcations had to be written to conform with the national requirements of the country in which it was filed. 

The national laws of most countries are unique to the particular country. However, most industrialized countries are parties to one or more International Conventions which provide for the filing of foreign patent apphcations. For example, pursuant to the Paris Convention, if an appHcation is filed in a second country within one year after filing the appHcation in the first, "home" country, and if certain legal formalities are met, most foreign countries will treat the foreign-filed appHcation under its own laws as if it had been filed on precisely the same date as in the original, home country appHcation. 

Hydrocarbon Oxidation. The oxidation of hydrocarbons (qv) and hydrocarbon derivatives can be significantly altered by boron compounds. Several large-scale commercial processes, such as the oxidation of cyclohexane to a cyclohexanol—cyclohexanone mixture in nylon manufacture, are based on boron compounds (see Cylcohexanoland cyclohexanone Eibers, polyamide). A number of patents have been issued on the use of borate esters and boroxines in hydrocarbon oxidation reactions, but commercial processes apparently use boric acid as the preferred boron source. The Hterature in this field has been covered through 1967 (47). Since that time the Hterature consists of foreign patents, but no significant appHcations have been reported for borate esters. 

Disinfectant Formulations and Sterilization. Hundreds of appHcations covering disinfectant compositions using sodium chlorite have been described in U.S. and foreign patents. Some examples of these are as antimicrobial additives for latexes (166), marine antifouling agents (see Coatings, marine) (167,168), antimildew detergent compositions (169), toothpaste and solution compositions for prevention and treatment of periodontal oral disease (see Dentifrices) (170—172), and compositions for the disinfection of contact lenses (qv) (173). 

Any inventor may apply for a patent regardless of age, sex, or citizenship. Once a U.S. Patent has been granted most other countries allow the inventor up to one year to submit a patent application for a foreign patent. The exception is Japan which requires nearly immediate submittal of a patent application to the Japanese patent office at nearly the same time the inventor is submitting to the U.S. Patent office. 

Foreign countries require registration of a mark in compliance with local laws. The local laws vary a great deal thus, it is necessary to consult a local attornev or a U.S. attorney familiar with foreign patent and trademark law in order to register a mark in a foreign country. 

The AIST was created by the Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI) in 1948. Its main activities involve planning industrial S T policies and national R D projects, conducting R D in AIST laboratories, promotion of R D in the private sector, promoting international cooperation and developing national standardization policies. By 1995, AIST had accumulated 10888 patents, from which 1666 were foreign patents. 

Through Francolor, Farben gained exclusive licenses to 259 foreign patents and 53 patent applications. Some 153 of these were in France, 59 in the United States, and 100 in the other countries of the American, European, and Asiatic worlds. 

Foreign genes, transcription and translation of, 12 517 Foreign patent rights, enforcement of, 18 190... 

Patent medicine industry, 78 683 Patent office gazettes, printed, 78 210-211 Patent portfolio auditing, 78 185 compiling, 78 157 Patent protection, foreign, 78 191 Patent research, in fine chemical research and development, 77 425-426 Patents, 5 766 78 157-197. See also Foreign patents Invention Patentability Trade secrets article of manufacture category in, 78 166... 

Perhaps its author is trying to tell us something about the rate of change in trade secret law by publishing this treatise in loose-leaf form with yearly supplements. A U.S. patent has a fixed term of 17 years and extends protection to the United States only—although its disclosures are worldwide. Foreign patents can be obtained separately in each country and may be quite costly. The scope of protection and subject matter which is patentable varies tremendously. There is action towards patents common to several countries, but the cost is apt to remain high, and many years will be required to determine their effectiveness. 

Several patents were issued on this topic. For example, Rueter [34] in his patent cited about 120 US patents and about 40 foreign patents in the period 1987-2004. The actual number of patents is higher, but already these numbers indicate that many aspects of catalyst and process technology are covered. Patents in the last five years (2003-2008) were thus focused either on the improvement of catalyst preparation and/or improvement of reaction/reactor operations, particularly with strong attention on the safety of operations. However, often in the cited patents operations are still... 

Dubois is the author of over 130 publications and holds four U.S. and several foreign patents. His numerous honors include the prestigious IR100 and Alpha Chi Sigma awards as well as the Office of the Secretary of Defense Award for Outstanding Achievement and the Secretary of Defense Medal for Outstanding Public Service. He sits on the Board of Directors of two spin-off companies from SRI Polyfuel and CYANCE. 

Prior art cited in search reports of a foreign patent office in a counterpart application, and... 

If you are the inventor and are representing yourself (pro se), then you will need to supply the information yourself to the USPTO. The information submitted must be listed on an information disclosure statement, and the forms can be found on the USPTO website. Briefly, there is a section for U.S. patent and published patent applications, foreign patent applications, and patents as well as nonpatent references. For U.S. patents and patent publications, only a citation is necessary. For non-U.S. patent references or any other reference, the citation must be indicated on the form and a hardcopy of the reference must be provided. If the reference is written in a language other than English, a summary of the relevancy of the document in English or an English translation must be provided. 

Those Members that did not provide patent protection for pharmaceutical products when the wto was bom were allowed until 1 January 2005 to implement it. However, under Article 70.8 of trips, these countries still had to establish a mailbox for filing foreign patent applications that would preserve the priority dates of any pharmaceutical... 

Soon after our initial experiments, we realized that we had something unusual, with potentially important opportunities. We were able to obtain some foreign patents on the biimidazoles and were concerned that these might tip off others in this field, for there was considerable activity, as can be seen from a listing of biimidazole work as reported in Chemical Abstracts. By 1964, we filed our first application on the leucodye oxidation. By then, we had a sufficient head start on this chemistry that we became less concerned about competitive activities. 

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