by evansfox | Jan 7, 2014
The New Year will bring us two new options for accelerating progress of patent applications in a variety of countries. The five largest patent offices, known as the IP5, are launching a new IP5 Patent Prosecution Highway (IP5 PPH) in January 2014. The IP5 offices are...
by evansfox | Oct 11, 2012
After you receive your International Search Report and Written Opinion, the next step in the PCT process is to consider submitting informal comments, an amendment under Article 19 or Article 34, and/or making a Chapter II Demand. Although fewer than half of PCT...
by evansfox | Oct 11, 2012
For a PCT application, the patent office that performs the search on the invention is called the International Search Authority (ISA). Not all patent offices are qualified as an ISA, so a PCT application filed in one patent office may have to be deferred to another...
by evansfox | Sep 26, 2012
There is a new opportunity being afforded PCT applications (on a beta test or pilot basis) that receive positive results in the international phase to enter the PPH program. The pilot PCT-PPH program is only available in certain participating Offices, namely, United...
by evansfox | Sep 26, 2012
The Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH) is a program available to some patent applications that have entered the national stage. In order to qualify for the PPH program, the Office of First Filing (OFF) must rule that at least one claim in the application is patentable....
