With the world in the midst of the global COVID-19 pandemic,
many organizations have transitioned their workforces to remote
working. For some employees that may mean working outside of Canada
to be closer to family members during the pandemic or to travel
abroad for pleasure while continuing to work for the same
organization. If an organization is interested in obtaining patent
protection for a technology, having employees develop the
technology outside of Canada may make the patent process more
complex and may increase costs.
Foreign Filing Licenses
One very common patent filing strategy relied on by Canadian
organizations is to first file a US provisional patent application
to secure a filing date before proceeding to timely file either an
international PCT application or regular patent applications in the
jurisdictions where patent protection is desired. Depending on
where the technology was developed or where an inventor of the
technology resided while
