The foreign filing blog is dedicated to all issues of foreign patent filing, ranging from the PCT process and cost-savings measures, to country-specific issues related to the national stage entry.

inovia, the leading foreign filing platform, was named to the Deloitte Technology Fast 50 in Australia.  The program ranks the 50 fastest growing technology companies, based on percentage revenue growth over three years (2007 to 2009).

inovia, the leading foreign filing platform, ranked 3rd worldwide in Managing IP’s “Top PCT Filing Firms”, handling the national stage entry of 681 PCTs in 2009.

inovia, the global leader in reducing costs associated with foreign patent filing, is now offering PCT national stage entry into the Philippines and Georgia, extending its global network to more than sixty countries. The company is pleased to welcome the law firm of E.B. Astudillo and Associates as its new agent in the Philippines and to announce that Papula Nevinpat, its existing Finnish agent, will also now offer filing services into Georgia.

Featured in Patent World Magazine - Justin Simpson & Jeff Sweetman examine the international aspects of the US Patent Reform Act of 2009 and how it contradicts the US's own push to reform the PCT. 

Norway is included under the European regional umbrella for PCT applications filed from January 1, 2008. 

Reduce cost, not quantity, of foreign patent filings

Significant European patent office fee changes, effective April 1, 2009.

Many patent applicants have wrongly assumed that a European regional stage filing after 1 January 2008 would include Norway. Read on to find out more...

Peter Treloar from Shelston IP explains how and why the Australian Government has recently eased its "duty of disclosure" provisions.

In recent months we have helped a number of organizations assess the financial benefits of using inovia by providing them with cost estimates for cases that they have already filed.

Where are you filing? We analyzed all PCT applications coordinated by us over the past 12 months to see which countries were most popular.