In a step forward for Patent Prosecution in India, the Government approved the proposal for Bilateral Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH) program between Indian Patent Office and Patent Offices of other interested countries/regions. PPH refers to bilateral arrangement between patent offices that aims to: a) promote work-sharing and b) enable accelerated processing of patent applications. The maiden initiative under the PPH was mooted in association with Japanese Patent Office (JPO) on a pilot basis for three years. As per the official notification, PPH is expected to bring about “reduction in disposal time and pendency of patent applications, consistency in quality of granted patents and an opportunity for Indian inventors including MSMEs and Start-ups of India to get accelerated examination of their patent applications in Japan”. Similarly, the notification claims that the “Japanese inventors seeking patent protection in India will now be able to take the benefits of expedited examination in India under the pilot programme on PPH”.