Professor Demchick's Patent Services
Paul H. Demchick, United States Registered Patent Agent
(United States Patent and Trademark Office Registration 52,808)
Professor Demchick's Blackboard
Dr. Demchick has been a college and university faculty member for many years. On these Blackboard Pages he does a little teaching. These pages are intended as general, introductory information. Compromises were made between including details in these pages and keeping the pages readable for a general audience. These pages are not intended as legal or other professional advice.
UNITED STATES PATENTS FOR CITIZENS OF OTHER COUNTRIES
Patent laws in the United States of America treat all inventors the same without regard to citizenship. In my practice, I handle United States filings and prosecutions for clients around the world.
Here are some options, under United States law, which are open for citizens of any country:
File an application in the United States before filing in any other country. (Please check whether that is legal under your own country's laws.)
File an application in the United States of America within twelve months of first filing in another country which is a member of the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property. Most countries are members. Those countries are listed below.
File an application in the United States of America as the National Phase of an International Patent Application under the Patent Cooperation Treaty. This must be done within the time limits provided by law.
Please feel free to contact me about ways I may serve your patent needs in the United States.
Paris Convention Countries as of 11 April 2008 (information from the World Intellectual Property Organization):
Albania Algeria Andorra Antigua And Barbuda Argentina Armenia Australia Austria Azerbaijan Bahamas Bahrain Bangladesh Barbados Belarus Belgium Belize Benin Bhutan Bolivia Bosnia And Herzegovina Botswana Brazil Bulgaria Burkina Faso Burundi Cambodia Cameroon Canada Central African Republic Chad Chile China Colombia Comoros Congo Costa Rica Côte d'Ivoire Croatia Cuba Cyprus Czech Republic Democratic People's Republic of Korea Democratic Republic of the Congo Denmark Djibouti Dominica Dominican Republic Ecuador Egypt El Salvador Equatorial Guinea Estonia Finland France Gabon Gambia Georgia Germany Ghana Greece Grenada Guatemala Guinea Guinea - Bissau Guyana Haiti Holy See Honduras Hungary Iceland India Indonesia Iran (Islamic Republic of) Iraq Ireland Israel Italy Jamaica Japan Jordan Kazakhstan Kenya Kyrgyzstan Lao People's Democratic Republic Latvia Lebanon Lesotho Liberia Libyan Arab Jamahiriya Liechtenstein Lithuania Luxembourg Madagascar Malawi Malaysia Mali Malta Mauritania Mauritius Mexico Monaco Mongolia Montenegro Morocco Mozambique Namibia Nepal Netherlands New Zealand Nicaragua Niger Nigeria Norway Oman Pakistan Panama Papua New Guinea Paraguay Peru Philippines Poland Portugal Qatar Republic of Korea Republic of Moldova