International Preliminary Examining Authority

The Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) is an international patent law treaty, concluded in 1970. It provides a unified procedure for filing patent applications to protect inventions in each of its Contracting States (see Accession section below for current membership information). A patent application filed under the PCT is called an international application or PCT application.
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An Authority (either a national Office or an intergovernmental organization) [HTML] appointed by the PCT Assembly to carry out the international preliminary examination procedure. It's task is to establish the international preliminary report on patentability (Chapter II of the PCT).
  

An Authority (either a national Office or an intergovernmental organization) appointed by the PCT Assembly to carry out the international preliminary examination procedure. Its task is to establish the international preliminary report on patentability (Chapter II of the PCT).
  

International Preliminary Examining Authority (IPEA.E):
the EPO is the competent office, see International Preliminary Examining Authority (IPEA).
  

International Preliminary Examining Authority (IPEA):
office with competence to carry out the international preliminary examination for a PCT application. It may be either a national office (AT, AU, CA, CN, ES, FI, JP, KR, RU, SE, US) or an intergovernmental organisation (EPO) (Article 32 PCT, Article 155 EPC).