patent prosecution highway
Patent Prosecution Highway III – Geographical overview
By Troels Peter Rørdam | Posted on January 18, 2010
The concept of PPH was originally proposed by the Japanese Patent Office (JPO) as a bilateral agreement between the patent offices of two countries on using each other’s search and examination results in treating analogous patent applications, thereby allowing applicants in both offices to obtain analogous patents faster and more efficiently. The first PPH was...
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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