The defines the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PTC) as the treaty that "makes it possible to seek patent protection for an invention simultaneously in each of a large number of countries by filing an "international" patent application."
The source does not specify the exact date of data collection. The date of survey given is the date of publication.
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Latin America: patent applications via PCT 2017, by country
The statistic shows the number of patent applications submitted in selected Latin American countries as of August 2017. As of this date, Brazil occupies the first place in the region, with a total of *** patent applications via the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT), followed by Mexico with *** patent requests.
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