Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH)——申請人在首次申請受理(Office of First Filing, OFF)提交的專利申請中所包含的至少一項或多項權利要求被確定為可授權時,可以向后續申請受理局(Office of Second Filing, OSF)對后續申請提出加快審查請求。
*2 The statistics provided here do not include applications which are:1) pending examination; or 2) pending a response from the applicant to the first office action (except for the statistic on average pendency from PPH request to first office action).
(1)我從網站上截取了MOTTANIAI的原文敘述:“MOTTAINAI” is a Japanese term meaning “a sense of regret concerning waste when the intrinsic value of an object or resource is not properly utilized”.
(2)目前適用國家: (8個)
The pilot which includes the JPO (Japan), USPTO (USA), UK-IPO (UK), CIPO (Canada), IP Australia (Australia), NBPR (Finland), ROSPATENT (Russia) and SPTO (Spain) will ease the requirements for requesting patent examinations.