SIPO-HIPO PPH Pilot Program Started on March 1, 2016

According to the Memorandum of Understanding on Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH) pilot program between State Intellectual Property Office of PRC (SIPO) and Hungarian Intellectual Property Office (HIPO), the SIPO-HIPO PPH pilot program was started on March 1, 2016, and expired on February 28, 2019.

After the SIPO-HIPO pilot program was started, applicants can make PPH requests to SIPO following the "Procedures to file a request to SIPO for PPH Pilot Program between SIPO and HIPO", and make PPH requests to HIPO following the "Procedures to file a request to HIPO for PPH Pilot Program between SIPO and HIPO".

(China IP News)