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The Japan Patent Office (JPO) and the Nordic Patent Institute (NPI) have started the pilot program for the Patent Prosecution Highway using Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) international work products by the NPI on 1 October 2011 in accordance with the joint statement of intent at the NPI/JPO Heads Meeting held in Geneva on 29 September 2011.
(At the meeting in September 2011: Ms. Lone Hartung Nielsen, Director of the NPI and Mr. Yoshiyuki Iwai, Commissioner of the JPO)
Link to the NPI’s PPH page( External link )
[Last updated 27 December 2013]
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