Finnish Patent and Registration Office and the IPR office of Uruguay to start PPH co-operation
The memorandum of understanding was signed by Antti Riivari, Director General of the PRH, and Pablo Porro, the ambassador of the Oriental Republic of Uruguay, in Helsinki on 3 March 2022.
The PPH co-operation will begin with a three-year pilot period. The exact initiation date will be announced later.
Uruguay is a significant operating area, especially for the Finnish forest industry, and the PRH started negotiations at the request of companies in the industry. Finland is now Uruguay’s first PPH co-operative partner outside South America.
What is PPH?
The idea of the PPH is to fast-track the processing of patent applications and to reduce overlapping examination work done by different patent offices. PPH means that an applicant who has filed a first application with a first office and has received a positive opinion that the claims are allowable may request fast-track processing when filing a corresponding application with a second office.
Read more about the Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH) at prh.fi.
For more information, please contact
Patent Advisory Service
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