PPH pilot program between the Japan Patent Office (JPO) and the Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines (IPOPHIL)

The Japan Patent Office (JPO) and the Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines (IPOPHIL) have commenced the PPH pilot program on 12 March 2012 in accordance with the joint statement of intent at the IPOPHIL/JPO Heads Meeting held in Tokyo on 9 February 2012.

This PPH pilot program applies to applications assumed as patentable by the JPO or the IPOPHIL 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 February 2012: Mr. Blancaflor, Director General of the IPOPHIL 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 IPOPHIL national work products

Guideline (Requirements and procedures in detail)

(Japanese <PDF 206KB>) (English <PDF 218KB>)

Request form

Example forms for "Explanation of circumstances concerning accelerated examination"

- Patent Prosecution Highway Requests to the IPOPHIL

PPH using JP national work products or PCT international work products

・Guideline (Requirements and procedures in detail)

(Japanese <PDF 231KB>) (English <PDF 156KB>)

・Request form

PPH using JP national work products (Microsoft® Word version <DOC 33KB>)

PPH using PCT international work products (PCT-PPH) (Microsoft® Word version <DOC 33KB>)

-Link

Link to the IPOPHIL's PPH page

-Press Release

Press Release in February, 2012

-Japanese Page

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[Last updated 13 February 2013]