USPTO intents to terminate agreement of ISA and IPEA with Russia
USPTO announced that it has notified the Russian Federal Service for Intellectual Property, Patents and Trademarks that it intends to terminate their ISA (International Searching Authority) and IPEA (International Preliminary Examining Authority) cooperation agreements, which means the international applications need to be careful to choose Russian Federal Service for Intellectual Property, Patents and Trademarks as ISA or IPEA when they apply patent through PCT system. USPTO also announced that the termination will be effective on December 1, 2022.
Additionally, a brief of introduction of ISA as bellow:
What is ISA?
ISA is a patent office that register choose to do research for a prior art regarding their PCT application. ISA will provide a search report dealing the results of their prior art, which generally includes prior art references, and a brief summary to explain how to apply the certain prior art references to their PCT application.
Which country has ISA?
The list of ISA from WIPO:
Austrian Patent Office
Australian Patent Office
National Institute of Industrial Property (Brazil)
Canadian Intellectual Property Office
National Institute of Industrial Property of Chile
China National Intellectual Property Administration (CNIPA)
Egyptian Patent Office
European Patent Office (EPO)
Spanish Patent and Trademark Office
Finnish Patent and Registration Office (PRH)
Finnish Patent and Registration Office (PRH)
Indian Patent Office
Japan Patent Office
Korean Intellectual Property Office
Korean Intellectual Property Office
Federal Service for Intellectual Property, Patents and Trademarks (Russian Federation)
Swedish Intellectual Property Office (PRV)
Intellectual Property Office of Singapore
Turkish Patent and Trademark Office
National Intellectual Property Authority, State Enterprise “Ukrainian Intellectual Property Institute (Ukrpatent)”
United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)
Nordic Patent Institute
Visegrad Patent Institute
How the ISA charge?
Every ISA has its own charge policy, so when registers applies to research report, we recommend to check the price before submit their applications.
Post time: Jun-01-2022