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The USPTO recently announced that it has added the Danish Patent and Trademark Office (DKPTO) to its Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH) program. As noted in the USPTO announcement (link below), the DKPTO joins the Japan Patent Office, the United Kingdom Patent Office, the Canadian Intellectual Property Office, the Korean Intellectual Property Office, IP Australia, and the European Patent Office as PPH program members. According to the USPTO, ?[t]he PPH was established to enable an applicant whose claims are determined to be allowable/patentable in the Office of first filing (OFF) to have the corresponding application filed in the Office of second filing (OSF) advanced out of turn for examination while at the same time allowing the OSF to exploit the search and examination results of the OFF.? Several exemplary situations where the PPH between the USPTO and the DKPTO may be available are provided in the link below.

USPTO Announcement (PDF): LINK

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