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By Donald Zuhn, Kevin Noonan, Chris Singer, Sherri Oslick, and Jason Derry

By Donald Zuhn -- USPTO and IMPI Establish Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH) Pilot Program On Friday, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office announced that it was establishing a new Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH) pilot program with the Mexican Institute of Industrial Property (IMPI). As with other PPH programs, the new PPH pilot will permit an applicant having an application whose claims have been allowed in the IMPI to fast track the examination of an application in the USPTO, or vice versa, such that the latter application is examined out of turn. In particular, an applicant receiving a ruling from the...

Full post as published by Patent Docs on March 01, 2011 (boomark / email).