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USPTO and EPO Announce Extension of Trial Period for PPH Program

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

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By Christopher P. Singer -- In a notice dated September 23, 2009, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office announced that it will extend for one year the trial period for its patent prosecution highway (PPH) program with the European Patent Office. The extended trial period will expire on September 30, 2010. As we have noted, the PPH programs are designed to expedite and leverage the examination process for applicants that have received favorable examination in one of the partner countries. We reported last winter about the types of applications that are eligible for participation in the trial PPH, and the...

Full post as published by Patent Docs on September 24, 2009 (boomark / email).

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