Bartels, B.; Bouchez, D.; Higham, P. A. - In: World Patent Information 10 (1988) 2, pp. 99-103
The article describes the origins of the Patent Cooperation Treaty and its evolution since it entered into force in 1978. The increasing success of the system is charted, with applications reaching almost 10 000 in 1987, and the basic features of the process of application and publication are...