Need for speed? UK decides not to “Be more dog”

As reported here on 22 April, the UKIPO opened a consultation on a new accelerated prosecution service dubbed “superfast”. The intention of this service was to offer a premium accelerated prosecution service in addition to  the free acceleration services currently available, which can already bring the time taken to obtain a UK patent to less than a year.

The Government has now publised their response to the consultation which can be found here. Not unsurprisingly, a number of concerns were raised and the Government has decided not to go ahead with the proposal.

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