You must request your examination within months of publication. Patent search The Intellectual Property Office ( IPO ) carries out a search to check whether your invention is new and inventive. The request for examination may be filed from the date on which the application is filed up to the end of six months after the date on which the European Patent Bulletin mentions the publication of the European search report (see A‑VI, ). If the request for examination is not filed within this perio the application is deemed to be withdrawn.
However, if you are requesting that substantive examination takes place before your application is published we may receive a request from another patent office for the details of the examination. If the claims on file at the UKIPO do not, at the time of the GPPH request being made, correspond to those found allowable by the OEE then. The UKIPO has not begun examination of the application.
In brief, the EPO will aim to issue the first Examination communication within months of the request , subject to certain conditions being met, for example, the Examination fee having been paid. OEE claims, should be filed along with the GPPH request. There are several other ways of accelerating a European application, but these have been omitted at this point for the sake of brevity.
For international applications not originally in English, the fee is calculated based on the English language translation. The UK IPO will then issue the first Examination Report in due course. Therefore, normally the request is submitted around years after the filing date of the application. Up until now, the standard period for response to the Examination Report was months from issue of the report.
Viele übersetzte Beispielsätze mit request for examination – Deutsch-Englisch Wörterbuch und Suchmaschine für Millionen von Deutsch-Übersetzungen. This deadline was extendible as of right by months on. In the Indian patent system, a request to patent office has to be made to process the application to the Examination stage. Patent applications in the UK are administered by the Intellectual Property Office (IPO), formerly known as the Patent Office.
SIPO claims, should be filed along with the PPH request. Examination of the second application on which PPH is being requested has not begun. In order to promote efficient and high quality patent processing internationally, we are cooperating with other patent offices to share the of searches and examinations. In the event that there is a deficiency in the PPH request , both the EPO and the UKIPO will provide an opportunity to rectify this. Requesting PPH at the EPO or the UKIPO does not entail payment of an official fee.
Updated forms can be found here. The forms came into force on. This request is at the discretion of the UKIPO and justification is required. However, nothing further will happen to the application until a request for preliminary examination and a search is filed. However, such a request must be supported by one of the acceptable reasons for acceleration.
At the UKIPO a PPH request is not a guarantee of allowance, but the UKIPO is generally more favourably disposed to PPH than the EPO is. Thus requesting PPH may have more value at the UKIPO. Acceleration can also be requested at the UKIPO without using PPH. A UK Patent application is filed directly at the UK Intellectual Property Office ( UKIPO ). Examples of the OEE’s DAS include the USPTO’s Public PAIR system, UKIPO ’s IPSUM system and WIPO’s Patentscope.
Assuming the basic requirements are met, this will result in an application number and an application date. The applicant can either provide the office actions and copy of the claims with the request for examination under the GPPH, or request that IP Australia obtain the documents from the OEE’s Dossier Access System (DAS). Standard patent (R) application - first stage - examination and publication.
If we have given your request to record a filing date, we will examine your request and give you notice to correct any deficiencies within two months.
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