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USPTO News: KIPO Becomes Participating Foreign Office in PDX Program

By Donald Zuhn, Kevin Noonan, Chris Singer, Sherri Oslick, and Jason Derry

By Christopher P. Singer -- In a Notice dated October 14, 2008, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office announced that the Korean Intellectual Property Office (KIPO) has become the third participating foreign intellectual property office in the electronic priority document exchange program. This complements our prior report based on information provided by one of our Korean foreign associates. As of the date of the Notice, the USPTO will be able to electronically retrieve Korean priority documents from KIPO through the Priority Document Exchange (PDX) system. Similarly, the KIPO will also gain the ability to electronically retrieve U.S. priority documents from...

Full post as published by Patent Docs on October 21, 2008 (boomark / email).