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WIPO Becomes Priority Document Exchange Participant Office

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

By Christopher P. Singer -- On June 30, 2009, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office sent out an e-Commerce e-Alert announcing that the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) is now participating in the Priority Document Exchange (PDX) program. WIPO is the fourth foreign patent office (including Korea, Japan, and Europe) to join the PDX program with the USPTO. When filing applications in participant Offices, applicants can request that any priority documents be exchanged, at no cost, between the Offices (e.g., USPTO and WIPO). WIPO's PDX service can be accessed through it's Priority Document Access Service (DAS) website. Applicants filing applications...

Full post as published by Patent Docs on July 09, 2009 (boomark / email).