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National Phase: after the end of the PCT procedure, usually at 30 months from the earliest filing date of your initial application, from which you claim priority, you start to pursue the grant of your patents directly before the national (or regional) patent Offices of the countries in which you want to obtain them.
A priority claim to a foreign application does not impact the effective date of a published U.S. application. Thus, foreign priority claims can be ignored when determining the effective date. When determining the effective date of a PCT application, it is useful to refer to MPEP Â§ 2136.03. That portion of the MPEP explains that a PCT application is effective as prior art as of its filing date only if the following three conditions are met: The PCT application was filed on or after November 29, 2000;