PPH
New PPH-agreement between Denmark and Israel
By Troels Peter Rørdam | Posted on January 23, 2012
The year of 2012 has arrived with new possibilities for Danish patent applicants who wish to obtain a patent abroad in a faster and more cost efficient way: A PPH-agreement, on a pilot project basis, between The Danish Patent and Trademark Office (DKPTO) and the Israeli Patent Office has taken effect from 5 January 2012, thus...
Patent Prosecution Highway – Sweden and NPI entering the PPH-network
By Troels Peter Rørdam | Posted on September 27, 2011
As I mentioned in my blog entry of 19 september, the number of PPH-agreements has increased, introducing new possibilities for accelerated prosecution. Sweden’s Patent- och Registreringsverket and Nordic Patent Institute entering the PPH-network Three new patent offices have entered the PPH-network. The three new offices are PRV (Sweden, PCT-PPH with JPO and USPTO), The Nordic...
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China to drive on to the Patent Prosecution Highway
By Troels Peter Rørdam | Posted on June 24, 2010
According to a USPTO press release, the intellectual property offices of China (SIPO) and USA (USPTO) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding on 19 May 2010, which includes establishing a bilateral Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH) agreement between the two offices. The PPH agreement will be SIPO’s first, thus driving China onto the 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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