JPO Holds Bilateral Meetings with More than 20 Patent Offices during the Assemblies of the Member States of WIPO

July 18, 2023

Japan Patent Office Commissioner HAMANO and Deputy Commissioner KATSURA held talks with more than 20 national and regional intellectual property offices^*1 on the occasion of their participation in the 64th General Assemblies of the Member States of WIPO, which was held in Geneva, Switzerland.

At this time, both JPO officials confirmed the future cooperative relationship to be continued with each country and region in the area of Intellectual Property administration. In particular, the JPO requested the G7 countries to cooperate in the G7 Heads of IP Office Conversation scheduled to be held in December of this year, for which the JPO will serve as host country. JPO also signed a Memorandum of Cooperation with Kazakhstan on cooperation in the field of intellectual property and agreed on an Action Plan with Indian Patent Office comprising future cooperation on intellectual property.

^*1 Kazakhstan, Germany, International Trademark Association (INTA), European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO), World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), United Kingdom, India, Canada, Organisation Africaine de la Propriété Intellectuelle (OAPI), Saudi Arabia, Spain, Portugal, South Africa, Switzerland, Australia, Israel, Denmark, Kingdom of Morocco, France, Viet Nam, Sweden, Italy, Indonesia (listed in order of meetings held)

Meeting with Qazpatent’s Director Ospanov
*The left is JPO’s Commissioner HAMANO Koichi.

Meeting with DPMA’s President Schewior

Meeting with INTA’s Chief Executive Officer Acedo
*The center right is Mr. Acedo.

Meeting with EUIPO’s Deputy Executive Director Di Carlo

Meeting with WIPO’s Director General Tang

Meeting with UKIPO’s Chief Executive and Comptroller General Williams

Meeting with IPO’s Controller General Pandit

Meeting with CIPO’s Chief Executive Officer Georgaras

Meeting with OAPI’s Director General Bohoussou
*The right is JPO’s Deputy Commissioner KATSURA Masanori.

Meeting with BMJ’s　Deputy Director General Wichard

Meeting with SAIP’s Chief Executive Officer Alswailem

Meeting with OEPM’s Director González

Meeting with INPI Portugal’s President Bandeira

Meeting with　CIPC’s Commissioner Voller

Meeting with IPI’s Deputy Director General Addor

Meeting with IP Australia’s Acting Director General Tregurtha

Meeting with ILPO’s Deputy Director Bracha

Meeting with DKPTO’s Director General Sørensen

Meeting with OMPIC’s Director General Babqiqi

Meeting with INPI France's Director General Faure

Meeting with　IP Viet Nam’s Deputy Director General Hong

Meeting with WIPO’s Assistant Director General Kwakwa

Meeting with PRV’s Director General Strömbäck

Meeting with UIBM’s Head Marzetti
*The center is Ms. Marzetti, and to her right is JPO’s Director FUKUDA Satoshi.

Meeting with DGIP’s Director Yasmon

[Last updated 18 July 2023]