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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

Accelerated processing of Standard Essential Patent (SEP) applications?

By Love Koči | Posted on April 22, 2015

Numerous industries have benefited from standard-setting organizations (SSOs), whose primary activities encompass developing, coordinating and producing technical standards intended to address the needs of affected adopters. The SSOs may advance technology, as standardization promotes interoperability, quality and user-friendliness. Technical solutions developed within the scope of a standard may provide significant added value to its users,...

Tags: epi, FRAND, PPH, SEP, SSO

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...

Tags: GPPH, patent prosecution highway, PPH

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),...

Tags: IP5, patent prosecution highway, PPH

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...

Tags: GPPH, patent prosecution highway, PPH

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

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...

Tags: CIPO, Denmark, DKPTO, patent prosecution highway, PPH

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...

Tags: Denmark, patent prosecution highway, PPH, Russia

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