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The USPTO announced on April 13, 2009, the continuation of the patent prosecution high-way (PPH) with IP Australia. The PPH with IP Australia, dated April 14, 2008, allows an applicant whose patent has been granted in IP Australia, to have the corresponding application flied in the USPTO to be advanced out of line for examination. The PPH has been extended in order to allow the USPTO to adequately assess the feasibility or the PPH pilot program. The PPH between the Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO) and the USPTO was also extended and a similar cooperation with the German patent office was declared on April 14, 2009. Other countries participating in PPH programs with one or more other national patent offices include the European Union, Denmark, the United Kingdom, Japan, and
Posted by: Zeev Fisher in PPH, CIPO on
Dec 26, 2008
On January 28,2008, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) commenced a Patent Prosecution Highway pilot program (PPH) which enabled an applicant whose claims have been determined allowablelpatentable in an applicatioil filed in the Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO) to have the conesponding application filed in the USPTO be advanced out of turn for examination. See notice entitled "Patent Prosecution Highway Pilot Program bctween the United States Patent and Trademark Office and the Canadian Intellectual Property Office," 1327 Off Gnz Pat Office 45 (February 5,2008). The USPTO indicated that the pilot prograin would last for a period of one year ending on January 28,2009, but may be extended for an additional time period thereafter.
In order to adequately assess
Posted by: Zeev Fisher in USPTO, US, United States, PPH on
Dec 20, 2008
Hi all! Pendency periods in the USPTO have been awful within the last few years. It is a repeating scenario for all of us to sit in front of a client who never filed a patent application and advise him that he should expect 2-4 years before the first office action. Some clients are shocked. Some merely accept that this is a fact of life. Lately, things are changing. While there is no improvement what so ever in pendency periods, the USPTO has replaced the old "petitions to make special" system and is trying various programs to improve examination. The candy is acceleration - your application steps out of the line and becomes first. Applicant's age or health Out of the old system, the only "survivors" are petitions to make special (to accelerate) based on the applicant's age (above 65) or
Posted by: Zeev Fisher in USPTO, PPH, EPO on
Dec 14, 2008
Revised Requirements for Requesting Participation in the Patent Prosecution Highway Pilot Program in the USPTO (Between the USPTO and the EPO) On September 29,2008, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) commenced a Patent Prosecution Highway pilot program (PPH) with the European Patent Office (EPO), which was scheduled to last for a period of one year ending on September 29, 2009, but extendible for an additional year. A notice entitled "Patent Prosecution IHighway Pilot Program between the United States Patent and Trademark Office and European Patent Office" was published on October 21,2008 at 1335 Ofl Gaz. Pal. Office 196 providing the details of the PPH pilot program. In view of suggestions recently received from our users, the USPTO has decided to modify the
Posted by: Ophir Tal in USPTO, US, United States, United Kingdom, UK-IPO, UK, russia, PPH, Patent Prosecution Highway, Patent Prosecution, patent, Japan, Israel, intellectual property, Great Britain, Europe, EPO, Denemark, Canada, Austria, Australia on
Dec 08, 2008
Lately, I have been very interested in the growing number of PPH agreements reached by the USPTO and the UK PTO, the JPO, the CIPO, the Australian IP office, the Korean IP office and lately, the EPO.
Those are just the US-related PPHs. There are more. Those PPHs are basically an option for the applicant to advance his application in line for examination, if the claims in two applications in one family correspond. However, it seems like it is not just being advanced in line. If the examiners will actually use the results of the corresponding examination, we are expected to see examiners relying more and more on their colleagues' work. If the examination didn't make you minimize the claims to much, those procedures look like a dream. In Israel, like in singapore, we have a more radical
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