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

By Donald Zuhn -- USPTO and IPAU Extend PPH and Agree to New PCT-PPH Programs Today, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and IP Australia (IPAU) announced that the two offices had agreed to extend their existing pilot bilateral Paris Convention Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH) agreement and enter into a new PPH pilot agreement utilizing Patent Cooperation Treaty results (PCT-PPH). Under the Paris Convention PPH framework, an applicant receiving a determination from one office that a claim or claims is allowable may request that a corresponding application pending before the other office receive faster examination. Under the PCT-PPH framework, which...

Full post as published by Patent Docs on January 20, 2011 (boomark / email).