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(1) Cooperation in design examination

In support of promoting a substantive examination process for design applications in developing countries, the JPO provides examination results of Japanese design applications (only for registered applications span) for the patent office of a designated developing country with respect to the design application filed both with Japan and the designated country.  The cooperation in examination between the JPO and the Department of Intellectual Property of Thailand (DIP) started in January 2002 and between the JPO and the National Office of Intellectual Property of Vietnam (NOIP) in September 2002.

(2) Structuring the Advanced Industrial Property Network

The JPO constructed the Asian Industrial Property Network (AIPN) which provided information in machine-translated English about patent applications filed first with the JPO and subsequently with intellectual property offices (IP offices) in other countries. Such information includes the legal status, cited documents, granted claims, and the patent family of a patent application filed with the JPO. The purpose of the AIPN is to reduce workloads in other IP offices by utilizing effectively results of searches and examinations in the JPO and to allow Japanese applicants to more quickly obtain a patent in other countries. Through the AIPN, the JPO has offered examination information of Japanese patent applications to IP offices, mainly in Asia.  In October 2004, the JPO released a new function for providing file wrapper information and changed the system’s name to the Advanced Industrial Property Network (AIPN).  The JPO strives to disseminate the AIPN for the patent examination cooperation in developing countries, and the AIPN is, as of June 2005, available in the following 18 countries, area, and organization: Australia, Canada, China, Chinese-Taipei, Denmark, Finland, German, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippine, Korea, Russia, Spain, Thailand, United Kingdom, United States and Vietnam, and the European Patent Office (EPO).

[Last updated 3 August 2005]

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