The Critical Decision: Where To File Your Critical Minerals Patent Application?

In our previous articles, we discussed the importance of securing a priority date through a provisional application, and the key steps involved in your early commercialisation journey. Here, we turn to the next major decision that every Applicant must face: where in the world should you seek patent protection – and how do you get there?

For companies developing critical minerals technologies in particular, this question has strategic weight. The minerals themselves are typically concentrated in a relatively small number of jurisdictions, many of which sit outside the main countries that most Australian companies typically file into (the most popular being US, Europe, China, Japan and New Zealand, as discussed in our recent IPAus Report article).