Application
Here is information on how to file your PCT application.
The Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) is an international agreement that allows you to, with a single application in one language, have a novelty search and preliminary examination on patentability performed by an authority for approximately 160 countries.
PRV is one of 25 authorized PCT authorities in the world that conducts the novelty search and the preliminary examination on patentability. PRV has been involved since the late 1970s. This means we have long experience in examining PCT applications. The fact that Sweden has a PCT authority is a great advantage for Swedish companies and the innovative capacity in Sweden. It means that PRV guarantees high quality in the novelty search and examination of patentability for the applications, and PRV meets high international quality standards in all technical fields. The status also gives Sweden international influence and the opportunity to impact the development of the PCT system.
PRV can handle your application in the best way no matter what technology your application may concern.
These are the requirements for an authority to obtain PCT status and for the authority to be authorized to conduct international novelty searches and preliminary examinations on patentability:
When you file a PCT application to the Swedish Intellectual Property Office, PRV as the international authority = the Receiving Office (RO), sets an international filing date that applies in all PCT countries.
A PCT application is handled in one or two international phases. First, PRV performs a mandatory novelty search (phase 1). If you choose to continue to a second phase, we also perform a preliminary examination on patentability. This results in a report on the novelty of the invention, the inventive step, and industrial applicability, which serves as the basis for decisions in the member countries.
In addition to being the RO, PRV also acts as ISA (International Searching Authority) and IPEA (International Preliminary Examining Authority).
You can use PRV as a PCT authority in the following cases:
PRV handles your PCT application throughout the entire process – a great security for you as a customer.
Once you receive our opinions and reports, you decide in which countries you want to continue with your application. Each country applies its own patent law in the final examination and decision.
You can get a discount on your PCT application in certain cases, for example:
In most cases, you have 30 months from the priority date to continue with your PCT application into the national phase in specific countries.
SIS – Supplementary International Search, an additional search of the PCT application.
Here is information on how to file your PCT application.
You may find the information about how to proceed once you have filed your PCT application and then started a national phase.
Here is information on what happens with your PCT application once you have filed it with PRV.
When PRV acts in the capacity of an international authority, international treaties are valid....