The series of high-level meetings among the world's largest five IP offices (IP5), namely, the State Intellectual Property Office of P.R. China (SIPO), the European Patent Office (EPO), the Japan Patent Office (JPO), the Korean Intellectual Property Office (KIPO) and the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), are held in Suzhou on 20-22 May. Comprising the 14th IP5 Deputy Heads Meeting, the 4th IP5 Heads/Industry Meeting, and the 8th IP5 Heads Meeting, the meetings are a milestone for IP5 cooperation and its future progress.

The meetings are hosted by SIPO and attended by the Deputy Director General of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) as an observer.

Being the most internationally renowned anchor event in IP5 cooperation, the IP5 Heads of Office Meeting has drawn wide interest of the global IP community. During the sessions, dozens of industry representatives from the 5 countries and regions gathered together in Suzhou to hold a meeting of the industry on IP5 cooperation and to attend the IP5 Heads/Industry Meeting.

 

Launched in 2007, the IP5 cooperation is the joint efforts on patent examination among the world's largest IP offices aiming at avoiding unnecessary repetitive works, improving the efficiency and quality of patents examination, and guaranteeing the stability of patent rights. Eight years later, the coverage of IP5 cooperation has been expanded from the initial 10 basic projects to dozens of projects under several working groups. IP5 cooperation has made significant progress in inter-office work sharing, improving efficiency and quality of patent examination procedures, and dissemination and utilization of patent information, benefiting IP users from the five countries/regions. 

 

(China IP News)

2015-05-21

2015-05-21