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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

Decision by the USPTO puts the spotlight on the “real party in interest”

By Joacim Lydén | Posted on July 1, 2014

One of the ways that companies in patent dense industries, such as consumer electronics, try to fend off claims from patent holders is by requesting assistance from patent risk management firms. Patent risk management firms generally assist their clients by acquiring patents, tracking litigation outcome, or by acting to remove questionable patents from the landscape....

Tags: patent risk management, USA, USPTO

The life sciences patent maze – USA

By AWA | Posted on May 27, 2014

ON MARCH 4, 2014, the US Patent Office issued new guidelines on how to evaluate the patentability of inventions reciting or involving “laws of nature/natural principles, natural phenomena, and/or natural products”. Considering the fact that the first federal patent statute of the United States was established in 1790, one might be inclined to believe that...

Tags: life science, patents, USA, USPTO

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

Cooperative Patent Classification – Time to prepare for the launch

By Troels Peter Rørdam | Posted on October 18, 2012

Almost a year ago I wrote on the Awapatent IP Blog about the efforts of the EPO and USPTO to harmonize their patent classification systems to form the Cooperative Patent Classification (in short CPC). The work is progressing, and it has now become time for an update. The CPC is now taking shape, and it has...

Tags: CPC, EPO, IPC, patent classification, USPTO

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...

Tags: awapatent, European Patent Attorney, JPO, Nordic Patent Institute, PPH, PRV, USPTO

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...

Tags: china, Patent, PPH, SIPO, USPTO

USPTO will not give up

By Niklas Mattsson | Posted on June 10, 2008

Last fall, the US Patent and Trademark Office, USPTO, announced that they would make drastic changes in the rules concerning patent applications. Briefly, the USPTO rules mean that the applicant’s rights to file different forms of continuation applications are severely limited. The rules were meant to become effective on 1 November 2007. Tons of companies...

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