Since the PPH pilot between China and Russia has been running smoothly during the last years and in the meantime good results has been achieved, the SIPO and the Russian Federal Service for Intellectual Property (ROSPATENT) codetermined a two-year extension of the PPH pilot between China and Russia, namely, the PPH pilot between China and Russia will expire on June 6, 2015. Meanwhile, the pertinent procedure of submitting a PPH request remains the same.
(Source: SIPO)