BY  JACK T. W. WEI
 
Table 1.1 Statistics on Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH) Applications between Taiwan and the United States (from Jan 2011 to the End of Jun 2017).

Nationalities of Applicants
Date of requesting PPH	Domestic	United States	Others	Total
2011	3	35	1	39
2012	15	202	35	252
2013	16	217	38	271
2014	15	263	43	321
2015	8	242	77	327
2016	14	254	75	343
Jan 2017	3	33	3	39
Feb 2017	0	19	2	21
Mar 2017	0	64	9	73
Apr 2017	0	53	7	60
May 2017	2	47	6	55
Jun 2017	1	43	6	50
Total	77	1472	302	1851

 
Nationalities of the remaining applicants include: Singapore (70), Netherlands (52), Israel (31), Great Britain (29), Germany and Canada (19), Japan (18), People’s Republic of China and Cayman Islands (8), Sweden (7), Luxembourg and Switzerland (6), Hong Kong (5), Saudi Arabia and Italy (4), Thailand and Malaysia (3), Ireland (2), as well as Philippines, Mexico, France, Croatia, Republic of Korea, Turkey, British Virgin Islands, and Gibraltar (1). 

Table 1.2 Statistics on PPH Applications Between Taiwan and Japan (from May 2012 to the End of Jun 2017).

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
Jan 2017	0	29	1	30
Feb 2017	0	30	1	31
Mar 2017	0	59	1	60
Apr 2017	1	45	2	48
May 2017	0	52	0	52
Jun 2017	0	45	2	47
Total	10	1472	28	2462

  Nationalities of the remaining applicants include: Sweden (16), United States (6), Germany and Luxembourg (2), as well as Netherlands, and Singapore (1). 
 
Table 1.3 Statistics on PPH Applications Between Taiwan and Spain (from Oct 2013 until the End of June 2017). 

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
Jan 2017	0	0	0	0
Feb 2017	0	0	0	0
Mar 2017	0	0	0	0
Apr 2017	0	0	0	0
May 2017	0	0	0	0
Jun 2017	0	0	0	0
Total	0	1	0	1

 
Table 1.4 Statistics on PPH Applications Between Taiwan and the Republic of Korea (from Jul 2015 until the End of Jun 2017).

Nationalities of Applicants
Date of requesting PPH	Domestic	Republic of Korea	Others	Total
2015	0	5	1	6
2016	0	11	9	20
Jan 2017	0	0	1	1
Feb 2017	0	1	0	1
Mar 2017	0	0	0	0
Apr 2017	0	1	0	1
May 2017	0	0	1	1
Jun 2017	0	1	0	1
Total	0	19	12	31

Nationalities of the remaining applicants: Japan (7), Germany (2), as well as the United States, Sweden, and Israel (1). 
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: 2 additional applications requested PPH before Jul 2015. However, they were not considered in aforementioned statistics because the corresponding cases thereof are Korean applications, which were not eligible for requesting PPH at that time (unqualified). 
 

Table 2 Average First OA and Disposal Pendencies for PPH Applications.

Statistical period	Average first OA pendency (days)	Average disposal pendency (days)
until the end of Jun 2017	53.9	132.2

(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.


1 專利審查高速公路(PPH)申請案件統計(至106年5月底案件), Taiwan Intellectual Property Office (June 7, 2017).
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2 Patent Engineer in Patent Division