PPH Between BRPTO And DKPTO On Mechanical Engineering, Lighting, Heating, Weapons And Blasting Inventions

The Brazilian Patent Office (BRPTO) published on August 21, 2018, Rule # 223/2018, which establishes the procedures related to the Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH) between BRPTO and the Danish Patent Office (DKPTO).

Said PPH will be in force on September 01, 2018 as a pilot program and will run until August 31, 2020, with a limit of 100 applications per year, therefore, totaling 200 applications at most. Each Applicant may participate with up to one patent application per monthly cycle, except in the last month of the program, when there will be no limit on the number of requirements per Applicant.

This PPH is limited to patent applications related to the technical fields of "mechanical engineering", "lighting", "heating", "weapons" and "blasting", according to the International Patent Classification (IPC) and the respective lower hierarchical levels thereof, as follows: