The Danish Patent and Trademark Office partners with patent offices worldwide to establish fast-tracking of patent applications through Patent Prosecution Highway programmes (PPH).
PPH programmes leverage a faster and more cost-efficient processing of patent applications at a patent office, thereby providing applicants with quicker access to foreign markets at lower costs.
A PPH programme is an agreed administrative procedure between patent offices whereby a patent application filed at a foreign patent office can enjoy a faster patent prosecution, if a former patent office has processed the application with a positive outcome.
The process is illustrated below:
Faster processing of your patent application
More cost effective processing of your patent application
Higher probability of approval at foreign patent offices
The Danish Patent and Trademark Office has both global and bilateral PPH programmes.
Please review the guidelines for each PPH programme and use the PPH request form either annexed to the guidelines or available on the website of the relevant patent offices.
Austria, Canada, Denmark, Estonia, Hungary, Israel, Chile, Peru, Portugal, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Iceland, Japan, South Korea, Norway Nordic Patent Institute, Poland, Finland, Sweden, Russia, Colombia, Spain, UK, USA and Visigrad Patent Institute.
For general information about PPH, a collection of guidelines, forms, statistics etc. please visit the common global PPH Portal.