Table 1.1 Statistics on Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH) Applications between Taiwan and the United States
(from September 2011 to January Jun 2019).
 
Nationalities of the remaining applicants include: Singapore (76), Netherlands (72), Great Britain (46), Israel (36), Japan (33), Germany (28), Sweden (16), People’s Republic of China (15), Canada (14), Luxembourg (12), Ireland (12), Hong Kong (9), Cayman Islands (8), Switzerland (6), Republic of Korea (5), Saudi Arabia (4), Italy (4), British Virgin Islands (3), Malaysia (3), Norway (2), Finland (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 January 2019).
Nationalities of the remaining applicants include: Sweden (16), United States (13), Germany (3), Luxembourg (3), Netherlands (2), Republic of Korea (1), Singapore (1), Belgium (2) and France (1). 

          Table 1.3 Statistics on PPH Applications Between Taiwan and Spain
(from October 2013 until January 2019).   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 until January 2019). Nationalities of the remaining applicants: Japan (14), Sweden (8), Germany (2), the United States (1), and Israel (1). 
          Table 1.5 Statistics on PPH Applications Between Taiwan and Canada
(from February 2018 until January 2019). 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 Jan 2019	44.9	119.4

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.
(3) there are no PPH applications between Taiwan and Poland until the End of October 2018.
 
¹ 專利審查高速公路(PPH)申請案件統計(至108年1月底案件), Taiwan Intellectual Property Office (January, 2019). Retrieved from https://www.tipo.gov.tw/fp.asp?fpage=cp&xItem=531840&ctNode=7127&mp=1&Captcha.ImageValidation=NVjhM2 Patent Attorney in Patent Department