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: 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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