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Guidelines (Requirements and procedures in detail) and Request form for PPH

Global PPH participating Offices
IP5 Offices (except Global PPH participating Offices)
Other Offices

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Global PPH participating Offices

Normal PPH, PPH MOTTAINAI and PCT-PPH are available between any two Global PPH participating Offices.

	Patent Prosecution Highway Requests to the other Offices * For details on application procedures to individual offices, please contact them individually. * When there is any contradiction or difference between the temporary translation in Japanese and the original text, the latter shall take precedence.
	Guidelines (Requirements and procedures in detail)	Request form
JAPAN	Guidelines for Global PPH participating Offices Japanese (PDF:1,712KB) English (PDF:1,780KB) Appendix A Japanese (PDF:54KB) English (PDF:324KB) Appendix B Japanese (PDF:391KB) English (PDF:268KB) Appendix C Japanese (PDF:260KB) English (PDF:167KB) * Please refer to the following guidelines regarding PCT-PPH requests when the Office of Earlier Examination (OEE) is the JPO as an ISA or IPEA. Japanese (PDF:731KB) English (PDF:556KB) Guidelines for filing the requests with the JPO based on PPH with offices except for Global PPH participating Offices are listed by offices in the table at the bottom of this page.	How to file a PPH request using “Explanation of Circumstances Concerning Accelerated Examination” and “PPH Request Form”
United States of America	Japanese (PDF:102KB) English (PDF:306KB)(External link)	USPTO website (PDF:183KB)(External link)
Republic of Korea	Japanese (PDF:4,962KB) English (PDF:636KB)(External link) Korean (PDF:788KB)(External link)	PPH (Korean (PDF:204KB)) (Japanese (PDF:27KB)) PCT-PPH (Korean (PDF:61KB)) (Japanese (PDF:133KB))
Australia	Japanese (PDF:293KB) English (PDF:64KB)	(PDF:113KB)
Canada	CIPO website (External link)
Denmark	Japanese (PDF：99KB) English (PDF:282KB)	DKPTO website(External link)
Finland	Japanese (PDF:371KB) English (PDF:165KB)	PRH website (External link)
Hungary	Japanese (PDF:94KB) English (PDF:122KB (External link)	HIPO website (External link) Claim correspondence table (External link)
Iceland	ISIPO website (External link)
Israel	Japanese (PDF:169KB) English (PDF:285KB)	(DOC:75KB)
Nordic	NPI website (External link)
Norway	NIPO website (External link)
Poland	PPO website (External link)
Portugal	Japanese (PDF:163KB) English (PDF:171KB)	PPH (DOC:68KB) PCT-PPH (DOC:68KB)
Russia	Japanese (PDF:242KB) English (PDF:194KB)	(DOC:46KB)
Spain	Japanese (PDF:187KB) English (PDF:142KB)	PPH (DOC:49KB) PCT-PPH (DOC:52KB)
Sweden	Japanese (PDF:463KB) English (PDF:273KB)	PPH (PDF:67KB) PCT-PPH (PDF:96KB)
United Kingdom	Japanese (PDF:340KB) English (PDF 988KB)	(PDF:880KB)
Austria	Japanese (PDF 179KB)
Singapore	PPH Japanese (PDF:410KB) English (External link) PCT-PPH Japanese (PDF:398KB) English (External link)
Germany		DPMA website (PDF:502KB)(External link)
Esthonia		EPA website (PDF:84KB)
Colombia	Japanese (PDF:6,875KB) English (PDF:2,630KB)	PPH (DOC:97KB)
New Zealand	IPONZ website
Visegrad	VPI website (External link)
Peru	Japanese (PDF:507KB) English (PDF:1,387KB)
Chile	Japanese (PDF:1,714KB) English (PDF:868KB)
Brazil	Japanese (PDF:338KB) Portuguese (original) (PDF:97KB) English (provisional translation) (PDF:149KB)

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The Five IP Offices (except Global PPH participating Offices)

Normal PPH, PPH MOTTAINAI and PCT-PPH for individual Patent Offices are available.

	Patent Prosecution Highway Requests to the JPO *　Please click here for Request form	Patent Prosecution Highway Requests to the other Offices * For details on application procedures to individual offices, please contact them individually. * When there is any contradiction or difference between the temporary translation in Japanese and the original text, the latter shall take precedence.
	Guidelines (Requirements and procedures in detail)	Guidelines (Requirements and procedures in detail)	Request form
China	Japanese (PDF:2,213KB) English (PDF:3,472KB)	Japanese (PDF:1,063KB) English (PDF:563KB)	(DOC:29KB)
Europe	Japanese (PDF:1,882KB) English (PDF:1,907KB)	Japanese (PDF:342KB) English (PDF:1,901KB)	EPO website (External link)

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Other Offices

Symbols under country/region names show available PPH schemes.

：NORMAL PPH ：PPH MOTTAINAI PCT-PPH ：PCT-PPH

PPH with the office of an asterisk (*) mark is applicable only when the earliest patent application or the PCT application is filed to the JPO or the office of the asterisk (*) mark.

Asia

	Patent Prosecution Highway Requests to the JPO *　Please click here for Request form	Patent Prosecution Highway Requests to the other Offices * For details on application procedures to individual offices, please contact them individually. * When there is any contradiction or difference between the temporary translation in Japanese and the original text, the latter shall take precedence.
	Guidelines (Requirements and procedures in detail)	Guidelines (Requirements and procedures in detail)	Request form
Philippine	Japanese (PDF:890KB) English (PDF:906KB)	Japanese (PDF:1,204KB) English (PDF:307KB)	PPH (PDF:21KB) PCT-PPH (PDF:21KB)
Taiwan	Japanese (PDF:2,294KB) English (PDF:2,734KB)	Japanese (PDF:1,493KB) English (PDF:626KB)	Request form (DOC:92KB) Amendment Request Form under the PPH Pilot Program (DOC:64KB)
Indonesia(*)	Japanese (PDF:2,717KB) English (PDF:2,042KB)	Japanese (PDF:1,366KB) English (PDF:1,173KB)	PPH (PDF:105KB) PCT-PPH (PDF:105KB)
Thailand	Japanese (PDF:2,164KB) English (PDF:1,260KB)	Japanese (PDF:1,018KB) English (PDF:342KB)	(DOC:71KB)
Malaysia	Japanese (PDF:780KB) English (PDF:955KB)	Japanese (PDF:1,241KB) English (PDF:1,377KB)	PPH (DOCX:35KB) PCT-PPH (DOCX:35KB)
Viet Nam	Japanese (PDF:1,492KB) English (PDF:1,517KB)	Japanese (PDF:971KB) English (PDF:962KB)

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Africa

	Patent Prosecution Highway Requests to the JPO *　Please click here for Request form	Patent Prosecution Highway Requests to the other Offices * For details on application procedures to individual offices, please contact them individually. * When there is any contradiction or difference between the temporary translation in Japanese and the original text, the latter shall take precedence.
	Guidelines (Requirements and procedures in detail)	Guidelines (Requirements and procedures in detail)	Request form
Egypt	Japanese (PDF:2,337KB) English (PDF:2,145KB)	Japanese (PDF:1,600KB) English (PDF:1,372KB)	(DOC:71KB)
Morocco	Japanese (PDF:1,854KB) English (PDF:1,675KB)	Japanese (PDF:1,261KB) English (PDF:1,210KB)

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Europe/Middle East

	Patent Prosecution Highway Requests to the JPO *　Please click here for Request form	Patent Prosecution Highway Requests to the other Offices * For details on application procedures to individual offices, please contact them individually. * When there is any contradiction or difference between the temporary translation in Japanese and the original text, the latter shall take precedence.
	Guidelines (Requirements and procedures in detail)	Guidelines (Requirements and procedures in detail)	Request form
Eurasia	Japanese (PDF:1,990KB) English (PDF:2,600KB) It is suspended.	Japanese (PDF:1,147KB) English (PDF:860KB)	EAPO website (External link)
Czech	Japanese (PDF:316KB) English (PDF:497KB)	Japanese (PDF:445KB) English (PDF:365KB)	PPH (DOC:71KB) PCT-PPH (DOC:72KB)
Romania	Japanese (PDF:1,132KB) English (PDF:1,253KB)	Japanese (PDF:1,522KB) English (PDF:359KB)	(DOC:280KB)
Turkey	Japanese (PDF:1,731KB) English (PDF:870KB)	Japanese (PDF:1,928KB) English (PDF:628KB)
Saudi Arabia(*)	Japanese (PDF:1,162KB) English (PDF:893KB)	Japanese (PDF:2,104KB) English (PDF:1,554KB)
France	Japanese (PDF:1,431KB) English (PDF:1,689KB)	Japanese (PDF:1,056KB) English (PDF:1,154KB)

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North America, Central America, South America

	Patent Prosecution Highway Requests to the JPO *　Please click here for Request form	Patent Prosecution Highway Requests to the other Offices * For details on application procedures to individual offices, please contact them individually. * When there is any contradiction or difference between the temporary translation in Japanese and the original text, the latter shall take precedence.
	Guidelines (Requirements and procedures in detail)	Guidelines (Requirements and procedures in detail)	Request form
Mexico	Japanese (PDF:805KB) English (PDF:848KB)	Japanese (PDF:4,730KB) English (PDF:3,172KB)	PPH (DOC:44KB) PCT-PPH (DOC:43KB)