The ''PCT Newsletter'' is a
monthly
publication
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of the
World Intellectual Property Organization
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(WIPO). It contains "up-to-date news about the
Patent Cooperation Treaty
The Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) is an international patent law treaty, concluded in 1970. It provides a unified procedure for filing patent applications to protect inventions in each of its contracting states. A patent application filed und ...
(PCT)",
[PCT Applicant's Guide, Volume I, Chapter I, item 7]
Retrieved March 25, 2006. which provides a system for filing international (
patent
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)
applications. The ''PCT Newsletter'' is published in
English
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* English language
* English people
English may also refer to:
Peoples, culture, and language
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only. Important changes to the PCT are mentioned and explained in the ''PCT Newsletter''.
The first issue of the ''PCT Newsletter'' was published in March 1994 on a subscription basis.
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PCT Newsletter, June 2009, p. 1. Since January 1997, the issues are published online, free of charge.
Since January 2008, the PCT Newsletter is available only
online
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, and no longer as a paper publication.
Important Change in the Publication of the PCT Newsletter
PCT Newsletter, November 2007, p. 1.
See also
* ''Official Journal of the European Patent Office
The ''Official Journal of the European Patent Office'' (''OJ EPO'') is a monthly trilingual publication of the European Patent Office (EPO). It contains "notices and information of a general character issued by the President of the European Patent ...
''
* List of intellectual property law journals
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References
External links
''PCT Newsletters'' since 1994
available online on the WIPO web site
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Newsletter
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Newsletters
Publications established in 1994
Works about patent law
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