Eighth ID5 ANNUAL MEETING Held
- The level of international cooperation in the design field is increasing -

November 16, 2022

On October 27th to 28th, 2022, in Brussels, Belgium, the Eighth ID5 Annual Meeting was held, which consists of the Industrial Design 5 (ID5) Offices in Japan, the U.S., Europe, China, and South Korea. From the Japan Patent Office (JPO), Mr. Hamano, Commissioner, made a remark through video message and Mr. Nonaka, Director-General of the Patent and Design Examination Department, attended the Meeting.

At the Annual Meeting, reflecting activities so far, the ID5 Offices confirmed several issues including working together to respond to the rapid changes in the environment surrounding industrial designs due to new emerging technologies such as the Metaverse, and to promote the "Enhancement of interoperability". The Offices agreed to further increase the level of cooperation. The main outcomes of this Meeting are as follows.
In the JPO-led "Study on the Admissibility of Internet Information as Legitimate Disclosure for Novelty Examinations", the first recommended practice document^*1 was adopted in the ID5.
The JPO proposed a new collaborative project of the "Indication for registered designs," with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) to conduct a comparative survey of systems of indication for registered designs^*2 at the Offices, and with a view to establishing and implementing registered design marks common to the ID5 Offices in the future. This proposal was successfully adopted.
Other Offices proposed three projects, such as the "Design protection in the Metaverse," and the ID5 Offices agreed to advance cooperation in information exchange, research, and others for these projects from next year.

At the user session, with the theme of the "New Technologies impact on IP offices and business", users made presentations of their opinion on expectations for digitization of application procedures and challenges of hybrid work. In addition, the ID5 Offices exchanged opinions with users on cooperative projects being conducted by the Offices.
During the year of 2023, the Offices decided that the Korean Intellectual Property Office (KIPO) will serve as the host office.
 

• *1 Document in which specific design practices recommended as the ID5 for IP offices and users has been documented
• *2 For example, the system of Indication of Design Registrations stipulated in Article 64 of the Design Act of Japan is expected.
   

Video message from Mr. Hamano, Commissioner of the JPO
(Source of the bottom photo: EUIPO/Nicolas Economou)

Mr. Nonaka (second from left), Director-General of the Patent and Design Examination Department of the JPO,
and representatives from the ID5 Offices and WIPO
(Source: EUIPO/Nicolas Economou)

Participants from the ID5 Offices and WIPO
(Source: EUIPO/Nicolas Economou)

Links

• The Industrial Design 5 Forum (ID5)
• ID5 Website (External link)
• European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) (External link)

[Last updated 16 November 2022]