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Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) System

  • International Patent Cooperation Union (PCT Union): Assembly (PCT/A)
  • PCT Committee for Technical Cooperation (PCT/CTC)
  • PCT Working Group (PCT/WG)
  • Meeting of International Authorities Under the PCT (PCT/MIA)
  • PCT Text Processing Task Force

Reform of the PCT

  • Working Group on Reform of the PCT (November 2001 to April 2007) (PCT/R/WG)
  • Committee on Reform of the PCT (May 21 to May 25, 2001 and July 1 to July 5, 2002) (PCT/R)

PCT Informal Consultation Meeting on Electronic Filing

  • First and only Session, July 11 to July 14, 2000 (PCT/AI/1)

PCT Committee for Administrative and Legal Matters

  • First to Seventh Sessions, September 1982 to December 1999 (PCT/CAL)

PCT Committees and Working Group Meetings

Held between the adoption, June 19, 1970 and the entry into force January 24, 1978 of the PCT

  • PCT Interim Committee for Technical Assistance (PCT/TAS)
  • PCT Interim Committee for Technical Cooperation (PCT/TCO)
  • PCT Interim Advisory Committee for Administrative Questions (PCT/AAQ)
  • PCT Working Group on Budgetary Question (PCT/WG/BUD)
  • PCT Preparatory Committee (PCT/PREP/I)

Shortcuts

  • Washington Diplomatic Conference on the PCT, 1970
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