Patent officers of China, America, Japan, Korea and Europe held Meeting

The five patent offices of China, America, Europe, Japan and Korea have 80% of the patent applications in the world according to the statistics of WIPO; this was learnt from the third Meeting of China State Intellectual Property Office (SIPO), United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), European Patent Office (EPO), Japan Patent Office (JPO) and Korea Intellectual Property Office (KIPO).

Along with the economic globalization, the world's patent applications are increasing continuously, and the five offices are facing the challenge of the dramatic increase of work and backlog of patents pending files. In order to avoid the unnecessary work among the five offices and strengthen the efficiency and quality of patent examination, the five offices planned to carry out patent examination operation in 2007. This is the third session of the five offices' meeting, the previous two sessions were held in May 2007 and October 2008 in Hawaii of US and Cheju Island of Korea, respectively.

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