On 31 May 2017, the IP5 Heads of Office met with IP5 Industry in Valletta, Malta to celebrate ten years of IP5 co-operation, take stock of achievements to date, and discuss users' expectations of the future strategic direction of IP5 co-operation.
Topics and presentations included:
Recent developments at the IP5 Offices and WIPO
- JPO's recent developments (presented by the JPO)
- Recent developments at KIPO (presented by KIPO)
- Recent updates from SIPO (presented by SIPO)
- USPTO update (presented by the USPTO)
- Recent developments at the European Patent Office (presented by the EPO)
- Latest updates of WIPO (presented by WIPO)
Ten years of IP5 co-operation and five years of co-operation with IP5 Industry: Presentation of results and the commemorative publication
- Ten years of IP5 co-operation (presented by the EPO and BUSINESSEUROPE)
- Better services for users and the public: ten years of IP5 co-operation (brochure, PDF, 533 KB)
Follow up from the Global Dossier Task Force (GDTF) and Industry Consultation Group (ICG) meetings
- First implementation of Global Dossier alerting (presented by the EPO)
- Global Dossier - overview of alerting function (presented by SIPO)
- First feedback on the RSS-feed alerting function (presented by BUSINESSEUROPE for IP5 Industry)
- The IP5 Global Dossier - quality of the passive component (presented by the EPO for the IP5 Offices)
- Further expansion of the Global Dossier information sharing network (presented by the JPO)
- Global Dossier update: XML document provision (presented by the JPO)
- Global Dossier applicant name standardization (presented by KIPO)
- Legal status (presented by SIPO)
- Global Dossier - document sharing (presented by the USPTO)
- Feedback from 1st IP5 Industry Consultation Group (ICG) meeting (presented by BUSINESSEUROPE for IP5 Industry)
- PHEP - citation of prior art: updates on the next steps (presented by KIPO)
Strategic topics
- IP5 project management (presented by the USPTO)
- Thorough searches: access to data in the information age (presented by SIPO)
- Thorough searches in the information era (presented by BUSINESSEUROPE for IP5 Industry)
- IP protection in the era of the fourth Industrial Revolution (presented by the JPO)
- The IP system in the fourth Industrial Revolution (presented by JIPA)
- The EPO's new initiative in XML filing - an update (presented by the EPO)
- New stage of work-sharing (presented by KIPO)
- The next IP5 Heads/Industry meeting (announcement by the USPTO)
In the first ten years of its existence, IP5 co-operation has delivered a number of products and services that support innovators around the world.
Having reviewed their ongoing activities and redefined the IP5 vision, the IP5 Heads of Office intend to step up efforts towards effective work-sharing and harmonisation of patent practices and procedures to further improve the patent landscape for users worldwide.