Table 1.1: Statistics on Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH) Applications between Taiwan and the United States
                                      (from September 2011 to April 2019)

Nationalities of Applicants
Date of requesting PPH	Domestic	United States	Others	Total
2011	3	35	1	39
2012	15	204	33	252
2013	15	214	42	271
2014	15	263	43	321
2015	8	244	75	327
2016	15	253	75	343
2017	16	460	66	542
2018	17	371	69	457
Jan 2019	3	15	14	32
Feb 2019	4	19	5	28
Mar 2019	3	26	5	34
Apr 2019	1	37	0	38
Total	115	2141	428	2684

Nationalities of the remaining applicants include: Singapore (76), Netherlands (76), Great Britain (46), Israel (37), Japan (36), Germany (28), Sweden (16), People’s Republic of China (15), Canada (14), Ireland (14), Luxembourg (13), Hong Kong (10), Cayman Islands (8), Switzerland (6), Republic of Korea (5), Saudi Arabia (4), Italy (4), British Virgin Islands (3), Malaysia (3), Finland (3), Norway (2), Turkey (1), Philippines (1), Thailand (1), United Arab Emirates (1), Croatia (1), France (1), Gibraltar (1), Mexico (1) and New Zealand (1).
 
Table 1.2: Statistics on PPH Applications Between Taiwan and Japan
                                                  (from May 2012 to April 2019) 

Nationalities of Applicants
Date of requesting PPH	Domestic	Japan	Others	Total
2012	1	207	0	208
2013	5	488	0	493
2014	0	513	2	515
2015	3	511	9	523
2016	0	445	10	455
2017	1	450	20	471
2018	0	419	18	437
Jan 2019	0	44	2	45
Feb 2019	0	16	0	16
Mar 2019	0	45	5	50
Apr 2019	0	33	2	35
Total	10	3171	68	3249

Nationalities of the remaining applicants include: Sweden (39), United States (14), France (4), Germany (3), Luxembourg (3),Netherlands (2), Republic of Korea (1), Singapore (1) and  Belgium (1). 


        Table 1.3: Statistics on PPH Applications Between Taiwan and Spain
                                              (from October 2013 to April 2019)

Nationalities of Applicants
Date of requesting PPH	Domestic	Spain	Others	Total
2013	0	0	0	0
2014	0	1	0	1
2015	0	0	0	0
2016	0	0	0	0
2017	0	0	0	0
2018	0	0	1	1
Jan 2019	0	0	0	0
Feb 2019	0	0	0	0
Mar 2019	0	0	0	0
Apr 2019	0	0	0	0
Total	0	1	1	2

 Nationality of the remaining applicant: Great Britain (1). 


 Table 1.4: Statistics on PPH Applications Between Taiwan and the Republic of Korea
                                                (from July 2015 to April 2019) 

Nationalities of Applicants
Date of requesting PPH	Domestic	Republic of Korea	Others	Total
2015	0	5	1	6
2016	0	12	8	20
2017	0	7	7	14
2018	0	10	8	18
Jan 2019	0	1	2	3
Feb 2019	0	2	2	4
Mar 2019	0	3	1	4
Apr 2019	0	0	1	1
Total	0	40	30	70

Nationalities of the remaining applicants include: Japan (14), Sweden (10), Germany (2), the United States (2), Israel (1) and Canada (1). 


Table 1.5: Statistics on PPH Applications Between Taiwan and Canada
                                                       (from February 2018 to April 2019). 

Nationalities of Applicants
Date of requesting PPH	Domestic	Canada	Others	Total
2018	0	2	0	2
Jan 2019	0	0	0	0
Feb 2019	0	0	0	0
Mar 2019	0	0	0	0
Apr 2019	0	0	0	0
Total	0	2	0	2

Note 1: the nationalities of applicants are based on applicants’ nationalities at the time of compiling the statistics. In case of assignment, the nationality of the assignee has been included.
Note 2: two additional applications requested PPH before July 2015. However, they were not considered in the aforementioned statistics because the corresponding cases thereof are Korean applications, which were not eligible for requesting PPH at that time (unqualified).
Note 3: there are no PPH applications between Taiwan and Poland yet.
 
    Table 2: Average First OA and Disposal Pendencies for PPH Applications.

Statistical period	Average first OA pendency (days)	Average disposal pendency (days)
Jan 2019  to Apr 2019	46.5	119

Notes:
(1) the average first OA pendency is defined as the average period since the submission of all PPH documents to the issuance of first OA.
(2) the average disposal pendency is defined as the average period since the submission of all PPH documents to the conclusion.