Patent Cooperation Treaty proves the CP is not US patent law and guarantees competition because it’s an international patent

B. The Patent Cooperation Treaty ("PCT")37"Whereas the Paris Convention dealt with substantive issues of patent protection, the... [PCT] deals with procedures to obtain international patent protection.'38 The United States took the lead role in the late 1960s in creating a new multilateral patent treaty to minimize duplicative patent application and examinations worldwide.39 The PCT took effect on January 1, 1978.40 The PCT constituted an important step towards rationalizing the filing of patent applications worldwide." "Stripped down to its essentials,4 2 the PCT enables an inventor to prosecute a single international patent application to obtain patent protection in multiple regions."43Although the PCT did not focus directly on the substance of patent law, it indirectly provided substantial impact." Also, the PCT rationalized the patent application process concerning filing, searching, and preliminary examination, it does not result in a globally harmonized patent system, which would result in one international patent.45