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USPTO News: PTO Announces "Triway" Pilot Program

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

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By Donald Zuhn -- The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office announced today that it was initiating a pilot program to promote worksharing between the USPTO, European Patent Office, and Japan Patent Office. The pilot program, dubbed "Triway," was first proposed by the USPTO at the 2005 Trilateral Pre-conference; the Trilateral Offices agreed at last year's Trilateral Pre-conference to undertake a limited pilot program. We first heard of the Triway program at last month's BIO International Convention when Group 1600 Director Dr. George Elliott briefly described three of the Office's worksharing initiatives to conference attendees (see "Docs at BIO: Representatives from...

Full post as published by Patent Docs on July 16, 2008 (boomark / email).

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