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The USPTO and the Korean Intellectual Property Office ("KIPO") collectively announced that their original pilot Patent Prosecution Highway ("PPH") program will be implemented full time starting on January 29, 2009. According to the USPTO, and under this PPH, "an applicant receiving a ruling from either the KIPO or the USPTO that at least one claim in an application is patentable may request that the corresponding application filed at the other office advanced out of turn for examination," and "[b]y basing the prosecution in the second office on patentable results from the first office, applicants can expect to obtain patents in both offices faster." If you have used the USPTO-KIPO PPH, or any other USPTO PPH, please post a comment to this blog post to share your experiences with the program.

USPTO Announcement: LINK
USPTO-KIPO PPH Webpage (via USPTO): LINK
USPTO-KIPO PPH Webpage (via KIPO): LINK
USPTO-KIPO PPH Request Form (PDF, via USPTO): LINK

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