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36th Trilateral Heads of Office Meeting in Japan

2018/03/06

EPO President Benoit Battistelli, the Commissioner of the Japan Patent Office (JPO) Naoko Munakata, and the Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), Andrei Iancu, held their annual Trilateral heads of office meeting at the beginning of March in Hakone, Japan, hosted by the JPO. The 36th?annual Trilateral conference was preceded by a meeting between the offices and industry associations from the three regions. Topics discussed included substantive patent law harmonisation, examination practices of computer related inventions, the 4th?Industrial Revolution and new technologies, and implications of essentiality checks on standard essential patents. The Trilateral offices also agreed to continue discussing issues relating to standard essential patents at the level of the IP5.

Source: epo




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