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I want to protect this outside India
Working out where, when and by which route.
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Without priority, a foreign filing is judged against everything public before its own filing date - including your own earlier application once it publishes.
- Check whether the earlier application has published. If it has, it is prior art against a fresh filing of the same subject matter.
- Assess whether genuine developments since the first filing could support a new application.
- Where the earlier application has not yet published, moving quickly may preserve something.
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This is educational guidance, not personalised legal advice. It cannot see your documents, your dates or the prior art, and those are usually what decide the answer. Use it to understand the question, then take advice on your own facts.
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