Continuation and conclusion of a series of posts on the drafting of patents:
* How To Write a Patent Part 1: Remove the element of your innovative idea and the main claim .
* How To Write a Patent Part 2: Write how it works: The drafting of the description of your invention.
* How To Write a Patent Part 3: The secondary claims.
* How to make a patent Part 4: Choosing the patent office.
* How to make a patent Part 5: The budget to protect my invention.
Assuming that your innovation or idea is patentable (See my other posts on the subject), you have to define which countries you're going to drop, or more exactly, in which countries you want your innovation is protected .
Initially, you do not have a question for you. You must file your innovation in your country origin, and it will be in France if you're French (or if the patent is filed on behalf of your company, which is generally the case, if your company has its headquarters in France).
You then 12 months to decide what other countries you will file a patent to protect you (a little less in practice, allow 1 to 2 months to prepare for the formalities by country, not counting translations).
Note that in general, research on the INPI any documents prejudicial to your invention will be returned between 8 and 12 months after filing your patent application. This will be a chance if it is that prior patents antériorisent your innovation (which can then be protected by a patent) ... If this happens, it will save you the cost of protection in countries other than France, so that your application has no chance of being validated ... But this is obviously not the goal.
After 12 months, you will need to file your patent in every country in which you want to be protected. It is essentially a question of budget, with 3 options:
1) Remove right away your patent in all targeted countries (you can even do it right your application filed in France, without waiting de 12 mois ...). Ce qui est très onéreux: Compter des redevances identiques à la France en moyenne dans chaque pays (une moyenne de 300 à 500 euros donc), plus ... les traductions: Compter environ 5000 euros pour une traduction d'un brevet type (10 pages, 10 revendications, ... CF Comment écrire un brevet Part 5: Le budget pour protéger mon invention. ) dans une langue ouest européenne (anglais, espagnol, ...) et 8 à 10000 euros pour une langue plus complexe (japonais, ...). Ce sont donc les coûts de traduction qui sont les plus dissuasifs.
Cecei dit, avec 4 ou 5 langues européennes + le japonais + le coréen, voire le chinois et le russe si vous ciblez ces derniers country, you have potentially affected 95% of global GDP ... If you're targeting the English-speaking countries (including India then), it can go, but if you absolutely want to make your innovation in 50 languages alien ...
Fortunately, there are more subtle ways to limit the costs: European patents and PCT.
European patent protects your language (French so) your innovation in major European countries. More translation problem thus: Just as the filing is done in a language accepted by the European Patent Treaty, which ... French. So no problem de traduction.
Si vous ne ciblez que l'Europe, n'allez pas plus loin. Cela vous coutera déjà 5000 euros environ.
* Le second vous permet de protéger, dans quasiment tous les pays, votre brevet pendant 18 mois (au delà de la période de 12 mois du brevet français, donc 30 mois en tout). Compter dans les 4000 euros.
Pourquoi parler du brevet européen quand pour moins cher, on peut avoir un brevet PCT qui protège quasiment partout ? Car au bout de ces 18 mois du PCT, vous devrez déposer votre brevet dans les pays cibles (et si vous ne visez que l'Europe, vous allez au bout des 30 mois à partir de la date de dépôt initial, vous allez sans doute déposer un brevet Europe. So far the place immediately at the European level, and therefore you spend € 4000 PCT).
If you still want to protect your idea across, to file a PCT, then at the end of 30 months from the initial date of deposit, targeting the main OECD countries as already mentioned: Europe, USA and Canada, Japan and Korea: A European patent for Europe, then in English translation, Japanese and Korean, and you will have 85% of global market potential ...
Note 1: Each new deposit is considered a new patent. For example, if you filed your turn patent in France, Europe, USA and Japan, and you have not abandoned these titles (eg there is no incentive to keep a French patent, if you have a European patent on the same innovation) You have 4 patents ... for a single innovation. Patent does not mean innovation is a title of intellectual property in a given geographic area for the implementation of your innovation.
Note 2: Each year you must pay a fee to keep your patent in each country where the patent is filed. The first 5 years, this tax is generally low (about 20 to 50 euro countries, Europe being here considered as one country for a European patent). But do not miss the deadline, failing which your innovation fall into the public domain.
The life of a start-up of audiovisual production. 
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