On 13 June 2018, the IP5 Heads of Office met with IP5 Industry in New Orleans, USA, to update the industry representatives on important developments and engage in a dialogue on IP topics of strategic nature, including quality and the further development of IP5 co-operation.
Topics and presentations included:
Recent developments at the IP5 Offices and WIPO
- Highlights from the European Patent Office (presented by the EPO)
- JPO's recent developments (presented by the JPO)
- Recent developments at KIPO (presented by KIPO)
- Recent updates from SIPO (presented by SIPO)
- USPTO update (presented by the USPTO)
- Latest updates of WIPO (presented by WIPO)
Follow up from the Global Dossier Task Force (GDTF) meeting
- Report from GDTF in January 2018 (presented by the JPO)
- (Annex: Next stages of five priorities by the JPO)
- Launching EPO-SIPO's Global Dossier e-mail alerting (presented by the EPO)
- Survey results from European member companies of PDG
on usage Global Dossier and JPO proposal for applicant name harmonization (presented by the PDG on behalf of BE)
Follow up from the Industry Consultation Group (ICG) meeting
- Follow up from 2nd ICG meeting (presented by the JPO)
- Patent Harmonization Expert Panel (PHEP) - New Topics (presented by AIPLA)
Follow up from 2017 strategic topics
- Compilation report of IP5 projects related to 2017 strategic topics (presented by the USPTO)
2018 strategic topics
- Quality, Evolution of the IP5 (presented by the USPTO)
- The next IP5 Heads/Industry meeting (announcement by KIPO)