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Brazil drives onto the Patent Prosecution Highway
By Troels Peter Rørdam | Posted on December 23, 2015
With the beginning of the year 2016, the Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH) family will welcome aboard an important new addition, namely the Brazilian Patent Office, INPI. With this addition the clear majority of the patent offices of the World’s biggest economies will have at least one PPH agreement. Thus the PPH becomes an even more...
Tags: Brazilian Patent Office, INPI, patent prosecution highway, PPH, The United States Patent and Trademark Office, USPTO
The Global Patent Prosecution Highway expands in the heat of summer
By Troels Peter Rørdam | Posted on July 2, 2015
As summer, at least here in Denmark, finally heats up, so does the PPH thus giving both Danish and Swedish patent applicants new possibilities of speeding up and simplifying examination of their patent applications. In the following the AWA IP Blog sums up these new possibilities. To recall, for a given PPH-agreement the PPH allows...
Tags: GPPH, Nordic Patent Institute, patent prosecution highway, PPH
New Patent Prosecution Highway possibilities for both Danish, Swedish and European applicants
By Troels Peter Rørdam | Posted on November 14, 2014
As the PPH expands further, both Danish, Swedish and indeed European patent applicants are offered new possibilities of speeding up and simplifying examination of their patent applications. In the following the Awapatent IP Blog sums up these new possibilities. To recall, for a given PPH-agreement the PPH allows for requesting accelerated examination at the one...
The IP5 launch a PPH pilot programme
By Troels Peter Rørdam | Posted on January 9, 2014
According to the EPO, the world’s five largest Intellectual Property Offices, called IP5, have announced the agreement to launch a comprehensive IP5 Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH) pilot programme, IP5 PPH, intended to take effect in January 2014. The IP5 are the European Patent Office (EPO), the Japan Patent Office (JPO), the Korean IP Office (KIPO),...
New Global Patent Prosecution Highway to be launched to simplify use
By Troels Peter Rørdam | Posted on December 10, 2013
Using the Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH) for obtaining accelerated examination is set to become considerably simpler as 13 Intellectual Property Offices around the world announce the intent to launch a Global Patent Prosecution Highway (GPPH) arrangement to be taking effect as of 6 January 2014. The 13 offices include the Danish Patent- and Trademark Office...
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...
Changes in the Patent Prosecution Highway agreement between DKPTO and CIPO
By Troels Peter Rørdam | Posted on September 26, 2013
Effective 30 July 2013, the part of the PPH-agreement between The Danish Patent- and Trademark Office (DKPTO) and The Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO) applicaple for applicants using the DKPTO as the Office of First Filing, i.e. typically Danish applicants, has been changed by the CIPO to have the same requirements as a PPH MOTTAINAI...
DK-US Patent Prosecution Highway agreement version 2.0
By Troels Peter Rørdam | Posted on June 3, 2013
Patent Prosecution Highway agreement version 2.0 between the DKPTO and the USPTO Effective from today, 3 June 2103, the PPH agreement between The Danish Patent and Trademark Office (DKPTO) and The US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has been upgraded to what the DKPTO aptly calls a “PPH-agrement version 2.0”. With the PPH agreement version...
Tags: DKPTO, patent application, patent prosecution highway, USPTO
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...
New Patent Prosecution Highway Agreement between the DKPTO and Russias ROSPATENT enters into force
By Troels Peter Rørdam | Posted on February 20, 2012
As mentioned in my previous blog entry dated 23 January 2012, the DKPTO announced that due to user demand efforts to establish a PPH-agreement with the Russian Patent Office had been initiated. Now, the efforts have matured into a PPH-agreement between DKPTO and ROSPATENT, which entered into force on 1 February 2012. Prosecution via the...
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