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EPO and EAPO launch new PPH agreement

By Troels Peter Rørdam | Posted on August 10, 2017

The ever-expanding PPH (Patent Prosecution Highway) network keeps getting new additions. As always, AWA Point sums up the latest expansions and arising possibilities.  To recall, for a given PPH agreement, the PPH allows for requesting accelerated examination at the one office participating in this agreement based on the search results and a set of claims accepted...

Tags: agreement, agreements, Colombia, EAPO, EPO, Japan, Malaysia, Philippines, PPH

Revisions to the Korean Trademark Act

By AWA | Posted on September 19, 2014

The aim of the revisions, which were implemented in June this year, is to reinforce the position of trademark owners, which the following examples will indicate. The article handling the protection of well known trademarks has become clearer. Now it is clearly stated in the Trademark Act that applications for trademarks which are likely to...

Tags: Japan, Korea, trademarks

Patent Prosecution Highway: New possibilities for Swedish patent applicants

By Troels Peter Rørdam | Posted on November 12, 2013

Swedish patent applicants and others using the Swedish Patent- och registreringsverket (PRV) as the office for first filing of patent applications are getting new possibilities for obtaining accelerated prosecution of their following foreign patent applications; the PRV are expanding their participation in the international PPH network with a number of new PPH agreements. Effective 1...

Tags: Japan, Korea, patent prosecution highway, PPH, sweden

The Patent Prosecution Highway expands

By Troels Peter Rørdam | Posted on May 31, 2012

I have previously written about the PPH MOTTAINAI agreement, which aims at easing the requirements for requesting patent examinations. The latest news is that the EPO (European Patent Office) entered the PPH MOTTAINAI agreement at the beginning of the year (29 January) and thus the PPH MOTTAINAI agreement has now been signed by a total of nine countries. With...

Tags: EPO, Japan, patent prosecution highway, USA

Patent Prosecution Highway – MOTTAINAI: Ease of requirements

By Troels Peter Rørdam | Posted on September 16, 2011

During the summer of 2011 the first steps in the process of simplifying requesting accelerated prosecution of patent applications using the Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH) have been taken. Likewise, the number of PPH-agreements has increased, introducing new possibilities for accelerated prosecution, some of which are particularly relevant to our Scandinavian clients.  New Patent Prosecution Highway...

Tags: Australia, Canada, European Patent Attorney, Japan, Patent, pph mottainai, prosecution highway, Russia

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