Last chance to join us! Come and join us in Vienna and seize the opportunity to discuss the latest trends in Asian patent information and connect with patent information experts from Asia. Please be informed that we have extended the deadline of East meets West forum registration to 10 April 2015. (...

Dear users, As the places in the training sessions and round table discussions are getting occupied, we strongly recommend registering for “East meets West” forum as soon as possible. Unfortunately the training on the new JPO’s platform for patent searching– JPlatPat is already fully booked. As an a...

Dear users, You might have heared, that the long term planned amendments in Japanese IP laws have recently passed the parliament and will enter into force on 1 April 2015, as the Japanese ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry published on 23 January 2015. The most important change is the re-introd...

Dear users, On 23 and 24 April 2015, the EPO is hosting its annual forum on Asian patent information "East meets West" (http://www.epo.org/learning-events/events/conferences/emw2015.html). During the plenary sessions and interactive discussion rounds, you will have the opportunity to engag...

Dear user, Thank you for your enquiry. In case your question relates to smart cards used by the EPO, please re-post the query on the EPO’s forum dedicated to Online Services preferably to the section “Smart cards and smart card divers” (http://forums.epo.org/onlineservices-smart-cards-and-smart-card...

Dear users, As the first IP office worldwide, the Korean Patent Office (KIPO) has implemented a database of standardised applicant names in Korean and English in its KIPRISPlus webservice. According to KIPO, many applicants in the past have registered patents under different applicant names, for exa...

Dear users, From 1 January 2015 you can access Indian patent information as well as legal texts and official publications via new interface Explore IPINDIA launched within the IPO’s web page: http://www.ipindia.gov.in/explore_ipindia_f.htm This new guide enables the users to have entry points for di...

Dear forum community, As you may know, the EPO offers a special support service on Asian patent information and the Asian patent systems. Some of our team members are fluent in Chinese, Japanese or Korean languages. We offer a range of services which are free-of-charge, such as the information we pr...