9 January 2023
The Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH) programme between the EPO and the National Institute for the Defense of Competition and Intellectual Property Protection of Peru (INDECOPI) became permanent on 2 January 2023. This follows the successful completion of a pilot programme launched on 1 January 2020. The current conditions and requirements for participation will continue to apply.
In addition to this PPH programme with
the Peruvian IP office, the EPO has operational PPH programmes with the IP5
offices (the collective term for the world’s five largest IP offices, made up
of the European Patent Office (EPO), the Japan Patent Office (JPO), the Korean
Intellectual Property Office (KIPO), the National Intellectual Property
Administration of the People’s Republic of China (CNIPA) and the United States
Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)), as well as with the national patent
offices of Australia, Brazil, Canada, Israel, Malaysia, Mexico, Columbia, the
Philippines, Singapore and Saudi Arabia.