FILING IN OTHER COUNTRIES
Filing patents or trademarks in other countries requires hiring a local patent or trademark attorney in the other country (or in some cases an attorney in one country can assist with filing in multiple countries).
Most countries require that a first patent application be on file before the invention is publicly disclosed or sold, so typically (for US based applicants), a US patent application is filed first. Then, before the expiration of 6 months (for design patents) or 1 year (for utility (invention)) patents, the foreign application must be filed and priority is claimed from the first filed patent so that disclosure or sales after your first filing does not act to bar filing in the other country.
We have an established network of attorneys in other countries that we use, many of them personally known to us.
ABOUT US
Firm History
1983 – Law Office of John P. Dellett
1985 – Dellett, Smith-Hill & Bedell
1992 – Dellett, Smith-Hill & Walters
1993 – Dellett & Walters, 1995, John Dellett retires
2006 – patenttm.us
James H. Walters – Registered U.S. Patent Attorney, JD Northwestern School of Law at Lewis & Clark College, Portland, Oregon US. BA Math & Computer and Information Science, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon US
Location
patenttm.us is located on the west coast of the United States in Portland, Oregon.
Fees schedule to associates available on request.