Safe Only Non Sorry: Electronics Giant Takes Novel Percent Route

According to a WIPO Press Release Dutch electronics giant Philips has larn the kickoff applicant to file a fully electronic international application nether the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT), alongside WIPO as the receiving office, using the PCT-SAFE ("Secure Applications Filed Electronically") software. This software lets PCT users file their international applications either online or using physical media such every bit CD-R. This filing past times Philips, the largest user of the PCT, follows a airplane pilot system inward which 49 applicants were enabled to file international applications using the software alongside WIPO every bit receiving office. Philips' Chief Executive Officer of Intellectual Property as well as Standards Ruud Peters said his companionship plans to brand extensive purpose of the PCT-SAFE software every bit this would interpret into meaning savings for his company: "Filing patents on-line at WIPO way a huge stride forrad for our patent creation process. As nosotros are constantly looking for ways to better our concern procedure as well as hold out cost-effective, this novel service fits perfectly inward our strategy".

Sustained increase inward the purpose of the PCT, which is forthwith treatment over 100,000 international applications a year, as well as the increasing complexity of applications, inward particular, from the biotechnology sector, has prompted WIPO to hold off for concern solutions to treatment such large amounts of information spell yet providing a value for money, lineament service to users. PCT-SAFE, which should hold out available to all PCT applicants past times the halt of 2003, claims to offering meaning benefits. Users volition hold out able to submit validated applications without the printing, copying as well as mailing unremarkably associated alongside such a transaction. They volition every bit good have close immediate notification that their application has been received as well as is beingness processed.

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