East meets West forum a great success again!

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East meets West forum a great success again!

Post by EPO / Asia Info » Mon May 11, 2015 8:37 am

We are happy to report that once again, more than 100 patent information professionals from 25 countries in Asia and Europe attended our annual East meets West forum. Since more than a decade, this event has played a major role in expanding Asian patent information services to European industry. Delegates from the Japanese, the Chinese and the Korean patent offices highlighted recent progress with respect to the introduction of CPC, public patent information sources and availability of online file inspection. In addition to the "big three", a representative of the Thai patent office gave an overview of the patent system in Thailand. Delegates from the patent offices of India, the Gulf Cooperation Council and Saudi Arabia were also present.

The EPO and OHIM presented collaboration initiatives for a harmonised access to high quality data, along with tools helping examiners to search and understand the Asian documentation. Furthermore, participants had the opportunity to join interactive discussion rounds and engage in one-on-one talks with Asian experts.

We have now uploaded all presentations onto the "East meets West" 2015 forum website. These include the presentations from the plenary session and the streams as well as flipchart protocols of the discussion rounds. You will find them all linked from the programme section at: http://www.epo.org/learning-events/even ... ramme.html

A photo gallery has also been created, to share with you some of the impressions of this year's event: http://www.epo.org/learning-events/even ... hotos.html

If you have missed East meets West 2015, why not join us next year? Sign up for our mailing list, to get an early notification on next year’s date and preliminary programme at asiainfo@epo.org

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