May 24, 2017
As previously reported, the National Office of Intellectual Property (NOIP) of Vietnam began accepting Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH) requests for the second year of the PPH pilot program with the Japanese Patent Office on April 3, 2017, and the number of the PPH requests was to be limited to 100. On May 24, 2017, the NOIP reported that the 100th PPH request had been filed.