GA D I 3 Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH) based on an IPER established by the EPO as IPEA

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The PPH enables an applicant whose claims have been determined to be patentable/allowable to have a corresponding application that has been filed with a PPH partner office processed in an accelerated manner while at the same time allowing the offices involved to exploit available work results.

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Under the PPH pilot programme at the EPO, a PPH request filed with one of the other IP5 offices, i.e. JPO, USPTO, SIPO and KIPO, or with one of the offices with which the EPO has launched bilateral PPH pilot programmes on 1 January 2015, i.e. CIPO (Canada), ILPO (Israel), IMPI (Mexico) and), IPOS (Singapore), IPA (Australia) and SIC (Colombia), can also be based on an IPER established by the EPO as IPEA (see point 246247).

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Irrespective of the PPH pilot programme, any applicant may request accelerated examination under the PACE programme in the procedure before the EPO as elected Office at any time. For more information on the PACE programme reference is made to chapter E (see points 441442 ff).

OJ 2010, 352

Source: http://www.epo.org/applying/international/guide-for-applicants/html/e/ga_d_i_3.html

Date retrieved: 24 November 2017

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