How can a patent be protected overseas?
Most countries are members of an international convention which allows overseas patent applications to claim the benefit of the filing date of a Pakistan patent application, provided they are filed within 12 months of the Pakistan application. It may still be possible to file overseas patent applications after the 12-month date without claiming the benefit of the Pakistan filing date provided there has been no disclosure of the invention. claiming the benefit of the Pakistan filing date provided there has been no disclosure of the invention. There are two procedures available for obtaining overseas patent protection: Separate overseas patent applications The procedure involves filing separate applications in each individual country of interest. Europe may be protected by a single European patent application, which covers up to 18 countries. Each separate application is then subject to a procedure which is similar to that described above for a Pakistan patent application. International
