Day by day no of patent filing is increasing very drastically and is increasing the load at patent office of every countries. To reduce such load all patent offices are trying to make some way out. USPTO had started Patent application swapping program where applicant can abandoned earlier application to examine later field application early.
Requests to participate in this program must be filed by April 30, 2011 and this temporary program has been extended to December 31, 2011.
The same way Argentina has started Patent application swapping program but it differs from that of USPTO program in manner that applicant does not appear to require abandonment of the earlier application. This program allows applications to swap places in the examination queue, such that a later-filed application can be examined sooner by taking the place of an earlier-filed application.
Requests to participate in this program must be filed by April 30, 2011 and this temporary program has been extended to December 31, 2011.
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