Overview of PPH at SIPO

April 2018

PPH network

PPH statistics

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CONTENTS

PPH user outreach activities

SIPO-ROSPATENT PPH Pilot Program

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What is PPH?

PPH Global Network

http://www.jpo.go.jp/ppph-portal/index.htm

SIPO’s PPH Network

11.1.2011

12.1.2011

1.23.2012

3.1.2012

7.1.2012

1.1.2013

1.1.2013

3.1.2013

3.1.2013

9.1.2013

9.1.2013

7.1.2013

1.1.2014

1.1.2014

1.6.2014

7.1.2014

3.1.2016

8.1.2014

7.1.2014

PPH

PCT-PPH

PPH MOTTAINAI

7.1.2017

1.1.2018

1.1.2018

2.1.2018

4.1.2018

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Number of PPH requests filed by Chinese Applicants

PPH Statistics

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76 40

499

37 12

456 372

6 56 15

3324

CA DE EP GB IL JP KR MX RU SG US

（As of June 30, 2017）

Total：4893

Number of PPH Requests at SIPO

PPH Statistics

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（As of June 30, 2017）

Total：22141

Number of PPH Requests and major origins at SIPO

PPH Statistics

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（As of June 30, 2017）

PPH：16440 PCT-PPH：5701

Number of PPH requests per year at SIPO

PPH Statistics

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PPH Requests distribution by IPC at SIPO

PPH Statistics

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（Jan - June, 2017）

10%

20%

10%

1%1%

8%22%

28%

A B C D E F G H

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PPH Statistics (Jan-June, 2017, at SIPO)

• First action pendency

– From PPH request to first office action

– 2.7 months

• Final action pendency

– From PPH request to final office action

– 12 months

• Number of office actions

– 1

User outreach activities

• Promotion seminar

– Since 2011;

– Held in many cities in China;

– PPH experts from PPH partner offices were invited;

Beijing, Shanghai, Suzhou, Shenzhen,

Fuzhou, Hangzhou, Guangzhou,

Chengdu, Qingdao, Tianjin, Hefei,

Shanxi

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User outreach activities

• Portal site

– www.sipo.gov.cn/ztzl/ywzt/pph/

• Booklet

• Newspaper

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SIPO-ROSPATENT PPH Pilot Program

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Commence

July 1, 2012

July 1, 2013

Extend

SIPO ROSPATENT

National PPH

PCT-PPH

June 30, 2018

Extend

July 1, 2015

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PPH Application Process

Executable files – for applicants• 《Procedures to file a request to the State Intellectual Property Office of the P. R.

China (SIPO) for Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH) Pilot Program among the

SIPO and ROSPATENT 》

PPH request

The reception and examination for PPH request

Applicant

SIPO

Accelerated Substantiveexamination

Accelerated grant or refusal

PPH request is rejected

second chance to file the PPH request

What materials are required to request PPH to SIPO？

OA

Copies of OAs of corresponding application（regular PPH）, copies of latest OA（PCT-PPH）, and Chinese or English translation thereof (except for the documents can be retrieved through IT system)

Claims

Copies of patentable claims deemed as allowable by OFF, and Chinese or English translation thereof(except for the case the documents can be retrieved through IT system)

Cited

Copies of cited documents（non-patent literature）

Copy of cited documents appeared in the latest OAForm

“Common PPH request form”

Thank you！