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What is the Patent Prosecution Highway?

By Troels Peter Rørdam | Posted on December 21, 2009

The Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH) is a concept originally proposed by the Japanese Patent Office (JPO). PPH has the purpose of increasing the speed and improving the quality of the prosecution of patent applications. This is achieved in that the patent offices of two countries make an agreement to use each other’s search and examination...

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