Here's a good resource to help understand the process. Looks like it's a patent. Looks like it is through phase I and has to be searched by the individual countries now.

This is next phase I think.

INTERNATIONAL PRELIMINARY EXAMINATION
23) What is international preliminary examination?

International preliminary examination is a second evaluation of the potential patentability of the invention, using the same standards on which the written opinion of the ISA was based

http://www.wipo.int/pct/en/faqs/faqs.html