The question we are most often asked by our clients is “How long will it take to get my patent?”

Rather than passing the buck and simply telling clients it is due to the lack of examiners we wanted to provide a practical solution. Patent pendency can be one of a business’s main concerns. Delays in granting patents can adversely affect a client’s businesses including when they can launch a new product, gain investments or even whether a business can get off the ground.
We gathered patent filing best practice and data from across China and South East Asia based on the decades of experience we have advising clients about their business decisions by collecting data on pendency, addressing risks affecting the pendency of their patents and developed strategies to expedite the grant of patents.