The priority right provides anyone who has filed a first patent application (or a utility model application) in a country (in which the Convention is in force) the right to wait for a period of a maximum of twelve months until he files applications for the same invention in other countries. If the subsequent applications are filed within the prescribed period, any event occurred between the filing of the first application and the filing of said subsequent applications shall not have any effect on the subsequent applications, in particular they shall not be invalidated by other filings, neither by the publication or exploitation of the invention .
