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ARTICLE · 24 MAY 2017

México and the PPH procedures (Patent Prosecution Highway)

Through the PPH procedures, the assistance and study of a patent application that had been previously filed in one of the countries in which a cooperation agreement had been signed may be hastened

SpainIntellectual Property

Through the PPH procedures, the assistance and study of a patent application that had been previously filed in one of the countries in which a cooperation agreement had been signed may be hastened.

The objective, is to eliminate the unnecessary duplication of work that exists among the different patent offices, increasing the speed, the quality and the efficiency in the doing the substantive examination of patents, through the homogenization of the granted rights, the users of the patent system of both countries obtain a benefit in virtue that both offices commit themselves to speed up the study of the application, advancing the order of attention of a PPH application to the rest of the applications that had been previously filed or at the same time that the application is being processed under the PPH program.

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