JPO Provided DGIP Examiners with Face-to-Face Examination Practice Training Program

November 16, 2023

The Japan Patent Office (JPO) provided face-to-face Examination Practice Training Program for the Director General of Intellectual Property (DGIP) for a total of four days from November 6 to 9, 2023. The training covered examination practices in the fields of Mechatronics, Chemistry, and IoT.

In this program, three JPO International Training Instructors of the Global Patent Academy (GPA) with extensive practical experience in patent examination in the fields of Mechatronics, Chemistry, and IoT served as instructors, and eight DGIP examiners participated as trainees.

Through discussions and assigned tasks, the trainees deepened their understanding of patent examination practices including prior art searches according to the technical field and JPO's Multi-Factor Reasoning (MFR) criteria^*1 for an inventive step. Some trainees commented that they were able to better understand as the explanation in the training was given using an actual motor.

The JPO will continue to provide cooperation in patent examination practices to examiners in Indonesia and other emerging countries where further business expansion of Japan's companies is expected, thereby supporting the development and strengthening of examination systems in those countries.

^*1 For further information on MFR, please click on the link below for the PDF material.

Group photograph

Face-to-face training

References

• JPO/GPA Training
• “Multi-Factor Reasoning" in the Determination of Inventive Step (issued March 2022) (PDF:4,661KB)

[Last updated 16 November 2023]