PCT patent applications

From Kancelaria Patentowa Łukaszyk

PCT national phase in Poland

The following information and documents are required to file Polish patent application in PCT national phase:

• (*)copy of the PCT publication: description, claims and drawings (if any),
• (*)copy of PCT Request Form (PCT/RO/101),
• Power of Attorney PPO form duly signed by a person entitled to represent the applicant.
• International Search Report and International Preliminary Examination Report (if any)
• other substantial information concerning the application e.g. amended pages of the application as compared to the priority application, for multiple priorities - information concerning the assignment of priority dates to particular claims, etc.

Notes:

Information indicated with (*) is obligatory. Additional information and/or documents may be provided later upon the PPO request (usually within 3-4 weeks after filing).

The deadline to enter the national phase amounts 30 months from priority date.

In urgent cases, to preserve the above deadline, it is sufficient to file only the abstract of the specification, as well as the filing particulars. Remaining parts of the filing documentation must be sent to the PPO within 3 months from the filing date.

PCT international phase in Poland

First filing is a procedure to apply for a patent protection for an invention that has not been previously disclosed.

In general the procedure comprises the following steps:

1. initial consultations - to preliminary assess if the invention is new, industrially applicable and has a so called inventive step, as well as the complexity of the invention (for this purpose we recommend to send us the filled form of Preliminary Specification of Invention);

2. prior art search - to determine the set of similar inventions already known to the public;

3. drafting the specification - to define the highest possible scope of protection of the invention (patent claims), which simultaneously should guarantee that the patent shall be granted (this step is performed with close co-operation with the inventor(s));

4. repeating the steps a) to c);

5. actual filing of the international PCT application at the Polish Patent Office;

Click here to download the Power of Attorney PPO

For further proceedings see the PCT application timeline below.

PCT application timeline