On December 8th, the 22nd Heads Meeting between the SIPO and KIPO was held in Odawara, Japan. Commissioner Shen Changyu of SIPO and Commissioner Choi Donggyou of KIPO attended the meeting.
The two sides also had an in-depth discussion on how to improve the cooperation in relation to exchange of IP liaison officers, the patent experts meeting, the joint examiners patent searching and examination program, the industrial design experts meeting, the training cooperation program, the automation experts meeting, the High-level Meeting between Intellectual Property Trial and Appeal Board of KIPO and Patent Reexamination Board of SIPO. Based on the discussion, the two offices worked out the cooperation plan for next year.

Source: SIPO