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USPTO News: "Blueprint" Announced for Work Sharing Initiative Between Five IP Offices

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

By Christopher P. Singer --In an October 31, 2008 press release, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office announced the development of a work sharing plan between five major intellectual property offices. The representatives of the five offices, including Dr. Jung-Sik Koh, Commissioner of the Korean Intellectual Property Office (KIPO); Alison Brimelow, President of the European Patent Office (EPO); Takashi Suzuki, Commissioner of the Japan Patent Office (JPO); Tian Lipu, Commissioner of the State Intellectual Property Office of the People's Republic of China (SIPO); and Jon Dudas, Director of the USPTO, adopted a unified vision statement for the initiative: "The elimination...

Full post as published by Patent Docs on November 06, 2008 (boomark / email).