Select a country or regional office to instantly verify its jurisdiction boundaries and its eligibility for US fast-track examination via the Global Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH).
The PPH is a network of bilateral and multilateral agreements between regional and national intellectual property offices. When a participating office determines that at least one claim in a patent application is allowable, the applicant can request "fast-track" examination of corresponding claims in other participating offices (like the USPTO). This allows you to leverage a positive result in one country to bypass years of examination delays in the United States, significantly reducing prosecution costs and time-to-grant. Click a country on the map to determine its US PPH eligibility.
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