PPH program between the Japan Patent Office (JPO)
and the Mexican Institute of Industrial Property (IMPI)

The Japan Patent Office (JPO) and the Mexican Institute of Industrial Property (IMPI) have commenced the PPH pilot program on 1 July 2011 in accordance with the joint statement of intent at the IMPI/JPO Heads Meeting held in Tokyo on 2 June 2011.

This PPH pilot program applies to applications assumed as patentable by the JPO or the IMPI and PCT applications having received a positive written opinion or a positive international preliminary report from the JPO, where the JPO were the International Searching Authority or the International Preliminary Examination Authority.

(At the meeting in June 2011: Mr. Rodrigo Roque, Director Genral of the IMPI and Mr. Yoshiyuki Iwai, Commissioner of the JPO)

Please see documents below for details about procedures in each office.

- Patent Prosecution Highway Requests to the JPO

・PPH using MX national work products

Guideline (Requirements and procedures in detail)

(Japanese <PDF 215KB>) (English <PDF 168KB>)

Request form

Example forms for "Explanation of circumstances concerning accelerated examination"

-Patent Prosecution Highway Requests to the IMPI

・PPH using JP national work products or PCT international work products

Guideline (Requirements and procedures in detail)

(Japanese <PDF 272KB>) (English <PDF 218KB>)

Request form

PPH using JP national work products (Microsoft® Word version <DOC 44KB>)

PPH using PCT international work products (PCT-PPH) (Microsoft® Word version <DOC 43KB>)

-Link

Link to the IMPI's Press Release page

-Development of the PPH program between the JPO and the IMPI

Full implementation of PPH program between the JPO and the IMPI as of 1 November 2012

Press Release of June, 2011

-Japanese Page

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[Last updated 1 November 2012]