I. Significance of Right of Priority The doctrine of right of priority, originating from the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property, and purporting to facilitate application for patents and trademarks in different countries, means that when an applicant files, within a given time limit after filing an application in a member state of the Paris Convention, another application in respect of the same subject matter in another member state, he/it may take the date of filing of the first application as the date of filing of the later application (referred to as the date of priority). The basis on which a foreign right of priority is established lies in that most countries adopt the first-to-file doctrine in patent grant. That is, it is presumed under the law that a person who first files an application is one who first accomplishes the in- I. Significance of Right of Priority The doctrine of right of priority, originating from the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property, and purporting to facilitate application for patents and trademarks in different countries, means that when an applicant files, within a given time limit after filing an application in a member state of the Paris Convention, another application in respect of the same subject matter in another member state, he / it may take the date of filing of the first application as the date of filing of the later application The basis on which a foreign right of priority is established lies in that most countries countries the the first-to-file doctrine in patent grant. That is, it is presumed under the law that a person who first files an application is one who first conformlishes the in-