The CNIPA-INPI (Brazil) Patent Prosecution Highway Pilot Program Extended

Release Time：2025-01-03 16:39Author：Views：234

Recently, the China National Intellectual Property Administration (CNIPA) and the National Institute of Industrial Property of Brazil (INPI) jointly decided to extend the PPH pilot program between China and Brazil from January 1, 2025, with the relevant requirements and procedures for submitting PPH requests to both offices remain the same. For detailed information, please refer to the Guidelines on the New PPH Program between CNIPA and INPI (Brazil).

According to the information released by INPI, its PPH program entered a new phase on January 1, 2025, and the total number of PPH applications received from all its PPH partner offices was increased to 3,200 per year, not exceeding 800 per quarter; and the total number of PPH applications received under the same Section of the International Patent Classification (IPC) was raised to 1,000 per year; besides, the restriction that each applicant can only submit one application per week was removed. In the first quarter of 2025, INPI will not receive PPH applications from IPC number H04 and will reassess and identify the technical areas to be received every quarter.

The PPH program is a fast-track patent examination channel between different countries or regions, speeding up the patent examination process through work sharing between patent examination authorities. Since the launch of the first PPH pilot program in November 2011, up to 33 national/regional patent examination institutes have established PPH cooperation with the CNIPA, covering 84 countries.

Information source: https://www.cnipa.gov.cn/art/2024/12/31/art_340_196982.html

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