SIPO Established 19 PPH Pilot Programs with IP Offices Globally

According to Patent Examination Administration Department of Patent Office under the State Intellectual Property Office (SIPO) of China, SIPO has established 19 PPH (Patent Prosecution Highway) pilot programs with overseas IP offices. 

The regional offices that SIPO established PPH programs with are Japan, USA, Germany, Russia, Denmark, Finland, Mexico, Austria, Korea, Poland, Singapore, Canada, Spain, Portugal, UK, Iceland, Sweden, Israel. In addition, SIPO, European Patent Office (EPO), Japan Patent Office (JPO), Korean Intellectual Property Office (KIPO), and U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) launched the three-year-long IP5 PPH pilot program on January 2014. 

Latest numbers showed that by the end of 2013, Chinese applicants have filed 825 PPH applications, of which 197 are regular PPH applications, 628 are PCT-PPH applications.

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