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"Keeping Our Sights on the Intangible

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 until the first 100 applications are received. Special conditions must be met. For more information go to the JPO web site.