Priority date
In patent law, the priority date is the earliest reference date on which a technology is submitted for patenting as new and inventive .
Within one year of the filing date of the first patent application, further applications for the same invention can be made worldwide, with the priority date of the first application being the relevant key date. That is the principle of priority . The priority date can be before the actual filing date if a patent application claims the priority of an earlier parent application.
Other documents are only relevant for a patent application if they were already publicly available before the priority date. You will be searched for in a patent search for the state of the art . This is important for patenting, because patents can only be granted for inventions that are new to the state of the art on the filing date and are based on an inventive step and can be used commercially.
Individual evidence
- ↑ What is the priority date? Infobroker's weblog. Retrieved November 30, 2016
- ↑ DPMA - Glossary. (No longer available online.) In: www.dpma.de. Archived from the original on December 1, 2016 ; accessed November 30, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
