The IP5 Industry Consultation Group (ICG) comprised of representatives from the IP5 Offices, IP5 Industry and WIPO IB met in Tokyo on 1 February 2018 to discuss amongst others the work of the IP5 Patent Harmonization Expert Panel (PHEP), the PCT Collaborative Search and Examination (CS&E) pilot programme and a potential new stage of work-sharing.
The presentations at the second IP5 ICG meeting included:
Ongoing IP5 projects
- IP5 PHEP: unity of invention (presented by the EPO)
- Citation of prior art - recent progress & next step (presented by KIPO)
- Access to prior art project (presented by the USPTO)
- IP5 PHEP activities: written description/sufficiency of disclosure (presented by the JPO)
- Comments on consultation on IP5 PHEP written description/sufficiency of disclosure case studies (presented by AIPLA)
- Future PHEP work (presented by the JPO)
- PCT CS&E third pilot programme (presented by the EPO)
- Improving the IP5 website (presented by the EPO)
- CEPRQM: Procedure Rules Guidance (PRG) (presented by SIPO)
Follow-up on strategic topics
- Work-sharing in the unpublished phase (presented by KIPO)
- Feedback for new stage of work-sharing (presented by KINPA)
- The Collaborative Search Pilot Program (presented by the USPTO)
- JPO's view on US-JP Collaborative Search Pilot Program (presented by the JPO)
- Study about US-JP Collaborative Search Pilot Program and suggestions (presented by JIPA)
- Collaborative Search Program Between KIPO and the USPTO (presented by KIPO)
- IP5 project evaluation and reorganization (presented by the USPTO)
- IP5 Heads of Office Meeting with Industry and next strategic topics (presented by the USPTO)
Any other business
- Progress of substantive patent harmonization in Group B+ (presented by the JPO)
- Next ICG meeting (presented by SIPO)