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Statistics on the Patent Prosecution Highway Program in Taiwan

2026-06-02 Patent Attorney - Tommy Tsai
Table 1.1: Statistics on Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH) Applications between Taiwan and the United States (from September 2011 to April 2026)
Last Updated: April 2026
Nationalities of Applicants
Date of requesting PPH Domestic United States Others Total
2011 3 35 1 39
2012 16 202 34 252
2013 16 207 48 271
2014 15 262 44 321
2015 8 243 76 327
2016 15 249 79 343
2017 19 446 77 542
2018 17 356 84 457
2019 34 331 90 455
2020 43 443 116 602
2021 44 374 107 525
2022 45 295 118 458
2023 33 248 121 402
2024 23 304 139 466
2025 20 205 123 348
Jan 2026 3 8 11 22
Feb 2026 2 5 2 9
Mar 2026 3 23 11 37
Apr 2026 0 19 14 33
Total 359 4255 1295 5909

Nationalities of the remaining applicants: Republic of Korea (231), Japan (165), Netherlands (148), Singapore (144), Israel (127), Great Britain (85), Germany (68), Sweden (57), Ireland (54), Canada (43), Hong Kong (34), People’s Republic of China (31), Switzerland (24), Cayman Islands (20), Finland (14), France (8), Norway (4), Saudi Arabia (4), Italy (4), Luxembourg (3), Malaysia (3), Belgium (3), Denmark (3), Australia (2), United Arab Emirates (2), India (2), Czech Republic (1), Turkey (1), Philippines (1), Thailand (1), Croatia (1), Gibraltar (1), Mexico (1), Samoa (1), Austria (1), Brazil (1), Guernsey (1), British Virgin Islands (1), and Republic of Namibia (1).
 
Table 1.2: Statistics on PPH Applications between Taiwan and Japan (from May 2012 to April 2026)
 
Nationalities of Applicants
Date of requesting PPH Domestic Japan Others Total
2012 1 207 0 208
2013 5 481 7 493
2014 0 507 8 515
2015 3 502 18 523
2016 0 438 17 455
2017 1 450 20 471
2018 0 419 18 437
2019 0 404 23 427
2020 1 473 9 483
2021 1 367 21 389
2022 1 372 11 384
2023 0 423 7 430
2024 0 434 19 453
2025 0 354 12 366
Jan 2026 0 33 4 37
Feb 2026 0 23 1 24
Mar 2026 0 42 2 44
Apr 2026 0 43 2 45
Total 13 5972 199 6184

Nationalities of the remaining applicants: Sweden (89), People’s Republic of China (30), United States (28), Germany (17), France (10), Republic of Korea (9), Singapore (6), Netherlands (3), Switzerland (2), Belgium (1) Spain (1), British Virgin Islands (1), Great Britain (1), and Israel (1).

 
Table 1.3: Statistics on PPH Applications between Taiwan and Spain (from October 2013 to April 2026)
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
2019 0 0 0 0
2020 0 0 0 0
2021 0 0 0 0
2022 0 0 0 0
2023 0 0 0 0
2024 0 0 0 0
2025 0 0 0 0
Jan 2026 0 0 0 0
Feb 2025 0 0 0 0
Mar 2025 0 0 0 0
Apr 2025 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 2026)
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
2019 0 21 16 37
2020 0 7 13 20
2021 0 12 8 20
2022 0 28 9 37
2023 0 28 6 34
2024 0 23 1 24
2025 0 20 4 24
Jan 2026 0 0 0 0
Feb 2026 0 1 1 2
Mar 2026 0 1 0 1
Apr 2026 0 0 0 0
Total 0 175 82 257

Nationalities of the remaining applicants: Sweden (38), Japan (32), United States (7), Germany (2), Israel (1), Canada (1) and Netherlands (1).
 
Table 1.5: Statistics on PPH Applications between Taiwan and Canada (from February 2018 to April 2026)
Nationalities of Applicants
Date of requesting PPH Domestic Canada Others Total
2018 0 0 2 2
2019 0 0 0 0
2020 0 0 0 0
2021 0 0 0 0
2022 0 0 0 0
2023 0 0 0 0
2024 0 0 1 1
2025 0 0 0 0
Jan 2026 0 0 0 0
Feb 2026 0 0 0 0
Mar 2026 0 0 0 0
Apr 2026 0 0 0 0
Total 0 0 3 3

Nationalities of the remaining applicants: Netherlands (2) and Japan (1).
 
Note 1: The nationalities of applicants are determined based on their nationality at the time the statistics were complied. In cases involving assignments, the nationality of the assignee is used.
 
Note 2: Two additional applications were filed with PPH requests before July 2015. However, they were excluded from the statistics because the corresponding applications were Korean applications, which were not eligible for PPH requests at that time.
 
Note 3: To date, there have been no PPH applications between Taiwan and Poland, Taiwan and France, or Taiwan and Israel.
 
Table 2: Average First OA and Disposal Pendency for PPH Applications.
Statistical period Average first OA pendency (days) Average disposal pendency (days)
Jan 2026 to the end of Apr 2026 36.1 121.0

Notes:
(1) The average first OA pendency is defined as the average duration between the submission of all PPH documents and the issuance of the first OA.
 
(2) The average disposal pendency is defined as the average duration between the submission of all PPH documents and the issuance of a decision.
 
(The above statistics were compiled from information published in the PPH section of the “Patent Topics” page on the TIPO website. The URL is as follows: https://www.tipo.gov.tw/tw/patents/492-6232.html.)
 
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