AIPLA Annual
Meeting Speaking Engagement
October 23-25, 2008
Kazuya Sekiguchi, Patent Attorney of Keisen will be
speaking at the AIPLA's Annual Meeting to be held in in
Washington D.C. in October. He will be speaking on IP
management in Japan. For detailed information about the
event or to register online,
click here.
IP NEWS FLASH
U.S., Japan and Europe Jointly Launch
Three-Way Patent Search Sharing Pilot, beginning July 28, 2008
On July 28, 2008, the Trilateral Patent Offices of the United
States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), the European Patent
Office (EPO), and the Japanese Patent Office (JPO) launched a
joint work-sharing project entitled the "Triway". The program
will test the effectiveness of a search and examination-sharing
framework aimed at eliminating timing issues and improving the
quality of the patents, with expectations of fewer invalidations
in the future. For now, the Triway is geared towards
applicants who have filed under the USPTO as the Office of
First Filing (OFF.) and is limited to 100 participants from
diverse technologies. The program will run until July 28, 2009
or untilthe first 100
applications are received. Special conditions must be met. For
more information go to the
JPO web site.
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