by Marta Garcia
In September 2018, Maximiliano Santa Cruz, the former Director of the National Institute of Industrial Property of Chile (INAPI), and the Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) signed a Memorandum of Understanding…
Since 2016, the Brazilian PTO (INPI) has been implementing several Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH) programs with different PTOs in order to accelerate examination of patent applications and try to reduce the large existing backlog.
Under the PPH…
