Patent Prosecution Highway

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The Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH) is a set of initiatives for providing accelerated patent prosecution procedures by sharing information between some patent offices. [1] It also permits each participating patent office to benefit from the work previously done by the other patent office, with the goal of reducing examination workload and improving patent quality. [2]

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An updated "PPH 2.0" system under the program name "Mottainai" (a Japanese word meaning "wasteful") began among several national patent offices in mid-2011. [3]

Cooperations (examples)

A number of patent offices are participating to PPH schemes. The following are examples of cooperations:

Trilateral PCT-Patent Prosecution Highway (PCT-PPH)

A Patent Cooperation Treaty/Patent Prosecution Highway (PCT/PPH) pilot program was also started on 29 January 2010 for a planned period of two years. This pilot program enables to "[fast-track] patent examination procedures for PCT applications that have received a positive written opinion of either the International Searching Authority or the International Preliminary Examining Authority, or an international preliminary examination report from the European Patent Office (EPO), the Japan Patent Office (JPO) or the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)." [30] [31]

IP5 patent prosecution highway (IP5-PPH)

On 6 January 2016, a patent prosecution highway program was launched between the five intellectual property offices [32]

A decision was made in 2016 to extend the duration of the programme by three years. The European Patent Office published [33] in its official journal that the program is going to available from 6 January 2017 until 5 January 2020. Participation in the program before the European Patent Office requires that substantive examination of the European patent application has not started yet. The starting date of substantive examination of a European patent application is publicly available from the European Patent Register via file inspection.

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References

  1. ↑ "Requesting accelerated national phase processing of an international application -PCT Newsletter". www.wipo.int. WIPO. September 2021. Retrieved 19 September 2021. The PPH is a work-sharing scheme under which applicants may request that their applications be processed in an accelerated manner under certain conditions.
  2. 1 2 Patent Prosecution Highway at the Trilateral Co-operation
  3. ↑ "PPH MOTTAINAI Pilot Set to Launch in July". Patent Prosecution Highway Portal Site. JPO. Archived from the original on 2011-07-13. Retrieved 2 March 2018.
  4. ↑ Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO) website, Patent Prosecution Highway Pilot Program between the Canadian Intellectual Property Office and the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Consulted on January 20, 2008.
  5. ↑ Two-Year Extension of the Patent Prosecution Highway Pilot Program between CIPO and USPTO, December 22, 2008. Consulted on January 29, 2009.
  6. ↑ DKPTO web site, PPH between Denmark and Japan [ permanent dead link ]. Consulted on January 29, 2009.
  7. ↑ USPTO web site, USPTO and DKPTO to Pilot Patent Prosecution Highway. Consulted on January 29, 2009.
  8. ↑ European Patent Office web site, Patent Prosecution Highway Pilot Programme between the European Patent Office and the United States Patent and Trademark Office, Information from the European Patent Office, 26 September 2008. Consulted on September 27, 2008.
  9. ↑ European Patent Office web site, EPO and USPTO to Pilot Patent Prosecution Highway Archived May 17, 2008, at the Wayback Machine , News, 28 April 2008. Consulted on May 2, 2008.
  10. ↑ USPTO web site, USPTO and EPO to Pilot Patent Prosecution Highway, Press release, #08-18, April 28, 2008. Consulted on May 2, 2008.
  11. ↑ EPO web site, EPO and USPTO to extend their PPH pilot, Consulted on October 10, 2009.
  12. ↑ EPO web site, EPO and JPO to pilot Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH) Archived December 27, 2010, at the Wayback Machine , News, 13 November 2009. Consulted on December 4, 2009.
  13. ↑ US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) website, Patent Prosecution Highway Between USPTO and IPAU (Pilot) Archived February 1, 2013, at the Wayback Machine , consulted January 29, 2013.
  14. ↑ US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) website, Patent Prosecution Highway Between USPTO and JPO (Permanent) Archived February 7, 2008, at the Wayback Machine , consulted March 5, 2008.
  15. ↑ Japan Patent Office (JPO) website, Patent Prosecution Highway between the JPO and the KIPO, Examination Activities and Appeal Examination Activities, consulted January 20, 2008.
  16. ↑ JPO web site, PPH pilot program between the JPO and the UK-IPO, Examination Activities and Appeal Examination Activities, consulted January 20, 2008.
  17. ↑ Managing Intellectual Property, UK and Japan sign patent pledge, April 3, 2007.
  18. ↑ UK-IPO website, UK and Japan pave the way for a permanent Patent Prosecution Highway Archived April 1, 2012, at the Wayback Machine , March 10, 2010.
  19. ↑ JPO web site, PPH pilot program between the JPO and the GPTO, Examination Activities and Appeal Examination Activities, consulted January 20, 2008.
  20. ↑ MyIPO web site, Archived 2014-12-20 at the Wayback Machine , PPH & PCT-PPH: MyIPO-JPO
  21. ↑ National Board of Patents and Registration of Finland web site, Patent Prosecution Highway Pilot Programme begins between National Board of Patents and Registration of Finland and Japan Patent Office' [ permanent dead link ], Current Affairs, Last updated: 2.4.2009, Consulted on April 3, 2009.
  22. ↑ USPTO website, The Patent Prosecution Highway in Conjunction With the Korean Intellectual Property Office Archived March 16, 2008, at the Wayback Machine , consulted March 5, 2008.
  23. ↑ USPTO website, USPTO and KIPO to Implement Patent Prosecution Highway on Full-Time Basis, Press release #09-01, January 28, 2009. Consulted January 29, 2009.
  24. ↑ USPTO-TIPO PPH press release
  25. ↑ UK Intellectual Property Office (UK-IPO) website, Patent Prosecution Highway between the UK and United States Archived October 19, 2007, at the Wayback Machine , consulted January 20, 2008.
  26. ↑ USPTO web site, The Patent Prosecution Highway in Conjunction With the United Kingdom Intellectual Property Office Archived January 14, 2009, at the Wayback Machine . Consulted on January 29, 2009.
  27. ↑ Israel Patent Office (ILPO) website, PPH between the ILPO and USPTO Archived 2012-06-08 at the Wayback Machine
  28. ↑ "Notice: Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH)". www.ipindia.nic.in. Retrieved 2019-12-26.
  29. ↑ "PPH Programme". eapo.org. Retrieved 24 February 2021.
  30. ↑ "Pilot of Patent Prosecution Highway Program to use PCT Work Products", PCT Newsletter No. 12/2009, page 1, and "The Trilateral Offices commence PCT-Patent Prosecution Highway Pilot", PCT Newsletter 02/2010, page 2.
  31. ↑ "Factors to be considered when deciding whether or not to file a demand for international preliminary examination" (Views of David Reed), Practical Advice, PCT Newsletter No. 04/2010, page 8ff: "[In] the case of PCT applications that have received a positive written opinion of either the ISA or the IPEA, or an IPER from the European Patent Office, the Japan Patent Office or the United States Patent and Trademark Office, patent examination procedures in the national phase before those Offices can be fast-tracked under the Trilateral PCT-Patent Prosecution Highway (PCT-PPH)."
  32. ↑ "Five IP offices", retrieved on 9 February 2018.
  33. ↑ "Patent Prosecution Highway pilot programme between the IP5 Offices based on PCT and national work products", Official Journal of the European Patent Office , 2016/A106, retrieved on 9 February 2018.

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