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I want to protect this outside India
Working out where, when and by which route.
A PCT application is usually the right route.
It preserves the option in most countries and pushes the expensive decision out to about thirty or thirty-one months from priority, by which time you know far more.
- A PCT application is never granted - every patent is still granted nationally.
- You also get an international search report, which is useful evidence about how strong your position really is.
- Diarise national phase deadlines individually. Indian national phase entry is thirty-one months and should be treated as absolute.
- Model the thirty-one month spend now, so the decision then is not forced by cash flow.
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