No you are wrong - "So, I am right that PCT is not just a "placeholder" for patents . It is for the protection of international patents." More bad news - A PCT application does not itself result in the grant of a patent, since there is no such thing as an "international patent" You still have to file a patent application in each County - ergo a PCT patent application is indeed a placeholder and it is meaningless on its own. It is basically a provisional patent. And there isn't a International patent. IG