{"id":71685,"date":"2016-06-27T14:34:20","date_gmt":"2016-06-27T14:34:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=88be4ac907c1540f9abfc621619ceb52"},"modified":"2016-06-27T14:34:20","modified_gmt":"2016-06-27T14:34:20","slug":"news-story-uk-and-china-ip-offices-extend-patent-prosecution-highway-pph-pilot-programme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=71685","title":{"rendered":"News story: UK and China IP offices extend Patent Prosecution Highway PPH pilot programme"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH<\/abbr>) pilot programme between the State Intellectual Property Office of the P.R.C (SIPO<\/abbr>) and the UK Intellectual Property Office (UKIPO<\/abbr>) started on 1 July 2014. The programme was due to expire on 30 June 2016.<\/p>\n

To continue ensuring the benefits of expeditious, inexpensive and high-quality examination for applicants and the benefits of avoiding duplicative work and reducing the examination workload, the SIPO<\/abbr> and the UKIPO<\/abbr> will extend the PPH<\/abbr> pilot programme for an indefinite time period. This will start on 1 July 2016. The present documents concerning the requirements and procedures of the PPH<\/abbr> pilot programme<\/a> shall continue to apply.<\/p>\n

The PPH<\/abbr> allows applicants who have been successful in obtaining a patent at one office to request accelerated processing of a corresponding application at the other. The second office can make use of the work undertaken by the first office to more quickly and efficiently process the application.<\/p>\n

Footnotes:<\/h3>\n

The initial pilot Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH<\/abbr>) programme was launched today on 1st July 2014 between the UK Intellectual Property Office (UKIPO<\/abbr>) and the State Intellectual Property Office (SIPO<\/abbr>) of the People\u2019s Republic of China. The launch of the pilot programme followed the signing of a Joint Statement of Intent by the IPO<\/abbr> and SIPO<\/abbr> as part of the Prime Minister\u2019s visit to China in December 2013.<\/p>\n

The UK Intellectual Property Office has existing PPH<\/abbr> agreements with the following organisations:<\/p>\n

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  • IP Australia (IP Australia)<\/li>\n
  • Austrian Patent Office (APO)<\/li>\n
  • Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO)<\/li>\n
  • Danish Patent and Trademark Office (DKPTO)<\/li>\n
  • Estonian Patent Office (EPA)<\/li>\n
  • Finnish Patent and Registration Office (PRH)<\/li>\n
  • German Patent and Trade Mark Office (DPMA)<\/li>\n
  • Hungarian Intellectual Property Office (HIPO)<\/li>\n
  • Icelandic Patent Office (IPO<\/abbr>)<\/li>\n
  • Israel Patent Office (ILPO)<\/li>\n
  • Japan Patent Office (JPO)<\/li>\n
  • Korean Intellectual Property Office (KIPO)<\/li>\n
  • Nordic Patent Institute (NPI)<\/li>\n
  • Norwegian Industrial Property Office (NIPO)<\/li>\n
  • Portuguese Institute of Industrial Property (INPI)<\/li>\n
  • Russian Federal Service for Intellectual Property (ROSPATENT)<\/li>\n
  • Intellectual Property Office of Singapore (IPOS)<\/li>\n
  • Spanish Patent and Trademark Office (SPTO)<\/li>\n
  • Swedish Patent and Registration Office (PRV)<\/li>\n
  • United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    On 1 July 2016 the IPO and the State Intellectual Property Office of the People\u2019s Republic of China will extend their PPH pilot programme.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71685"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}