Patent Office, China establish electronic exchange for application priority docs

Fedscoop: A new service allows the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to electronically exchange certain patent application documents with its equivalent office in China, the agency announced last week.

At issue are so-called patent application priority documents. Under the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property, patent applicants who file in one country have a year to file in other member countries in order to hold on to their priority date. The priority documents establish the facts of the prior filing.

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