Legal Commentary

Five IP Offices: The site...
The five biggest patent offices of the world: USPTO (US), SIPO (China), EPO (EU), JPO (Japan) and KIPO (South Korea) cooperate. They have a website and you can see their common projects, here...

USPTO/KIPO PPH Now Permanent
The USPTO and the Korean Intellectual Property Office ("KIPO") collectively announced that their original pilot Patent Prosecution Highway ("PPH") program will be implemented full time starting on January 29, 2009...

China Leads IP5 Meeting on Jeju Island in South Korea
October 27 and 28, 2008, the IP5 European Patent Office (EPO), Japan Patent Office (JPO), Korean Intellectual Property Office (KIPO), China's State Intellectual Property Organisation (SIPO) and the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) came together for the second time, this year on the beautiful vulcanic island of Jejudo, South Korea...

Which Patent Office Does It Best Survey Says: "The EPO"
Joff Wild at the IAM Blog reported on an on-going benchmarking survey being conducted by IAM magazine and Thomson Reuters on various patent-related topics.  Recently they asked questions to various professionals regarding patent quality at the larger patent offices...

KIPO Becomes Third USPTO Document Exchange Participant
Last week, the USPTO announced that it has added the Korean Intellectual Property Office (KIPO) as the third participating foreign intellectual property office in its direct priority document exchange program...

USPTO and KIPO sign MOU
Yesterday the USPTO announced that it has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the Korean Intellectual Property Office (KIPO) regarding a more comprehensive cooperation on patent examination...