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USPTO and Korean IP Office to Exapnd Patent Prosecution Highway Agreement

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

By Sarah Fendrick -- In a press release published on April 16, 2010, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and the Korean Intellectual Property Office (KIPO) announced the expansion of their existing bilateral Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH) agreement. Under the PPH agreement, an applicant that receives allowable claims from one patent office can request that a corresponding application pending before another patent office receive accelerated examination. The goal of the PPH program is to promote efficient and high-quality patent examination by coordinating search results between patent offices. "Expanding the scope of our PPH cooperation with the KIPO will significantly...

Full post as published by Patent Docs on May 10, 2010 (boomark / email).