On 31 January 2018, the JPO hosted the fifth IP5 Global Dossier Task Force (GDTF) meeting in Tokyo, Japan.
In addition to the IP5 Offices and WIPO, IP5 Industry was represented by their respective regional representations, namely BE, JIPA, KINPA, PPAC, AIPLA and IPO. Discussions focused on the "quality document" summarising the scope, content, availability and timeliness of the passive component of the IP5 Global Dossier, and defining industry's priorities for further enhancement; as well as the "five priorities" for the next stage of the IP5 Global Dossier.
The topics and presentations at the fifth meeting of the Global Dossier Task Force in Munich included:
- Agenda
- Report on outcome of IP5 Heads/Industry Meeting (presented by BE)
Further Improvement of Global Dossier (GD) passive component
- Further improvement of Global Dossier passive component (presented by the JPO)
- Further improvement of GD passive component (presented by JIPA)
- Quality of GD passive component (presented by the EPO)
- Improvement on GD contents (presented by the JPO)
- NPL access via Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) (presented by the EPO)
Five priorities of the Global Dossier
- Alerting functionality (presented by the EPO)
- Utilizable XML document (presented by the JPO)
- XMLization-Utilizable XML document (presented by JIPA)
- OOXML filing (presented by the EPO)
- XMLization-OOXML filing (presented by JIPA)
- Proposal on information sharing and future optimization in e-filing (presented by the JPO)
- Preliminary results of IP5 Applicant Name Standardization (ANS) pilot project (presented by KIPO)
- Standardization applicant names (presented by the PDG on behalf of BE)
- Standardized applicant name (presented by JIPA)
- JPO's views on applicant name standardization (presented by the JPO)
- Legal status (presented by SIPO)
- Inter-office document sharing (presented by the USPTO)
- Inter-office document sharing (presented by JIPA)
- Proposal for the IP5 Global Dossier active phase - assumptions and procedure (presented by AIPLA)
- JPO's view on the USPTO's new proposal of inter-office document sharing (presented by the JPO)
- Status of the five short-term priorities (presented by JIPA)
- Future direction of five short-term priorities (presented by the JPO)