A practical guide to the patent prosecution highway
01 April 2009
Managing Intellectual Property
Fasten your seatbelts. John M Carson, Alan Kessler and Hugh Dunlop explain how the PPH works in practice, and ask which applicants will most benefit from it
The patent prosecution highway (PPH) is a bilateral and bidirectional mechanism to share work generated by a first patent office with a second patent office. There is a developing set of bilateral alliances among the world's patent offices that make use of the PPH. The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) paved its first stretch of highway to the Japan Patent Office (JPO) with a trial programme in July 2006. Since then, the US PPH programme has grown to include six other trial segments linking it to the United Kingdom (UKIPO), Korea (KIPO), Canada (CIPO), Australia (IPAU), Europe (EPO), and Denmark (DKPTO). On January 3, the JPO-USPTO link became the first fully implemented programme, and since then Korea and the United Kingdom have followed suit....
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