International Activities
The 7th Industry Trilateral Meeting
The meeting started by talking about deferred issue “One Application”. The Agenda includes 1) National Legend 2) Reference numbers in abstract / claims 3) Requiring conformance of specification and claims 4) Requiring amendment of specification to cite prior art and 5) Citation of prior art.
Next, The meeting deepened discussion some possible new issues, composing 1)fees for excess claims, 2) multiple dependent claim practice, 3) how to write claims, and 4) unity of the invention.
After that, the meeting discussed an idealframework for using search result of the Trilateral Offices from users’ view and then referred to the nature of our issues; what “Patent Quality” means.
Another, they exchanged their opinions on the WIPO agenda like, First-inventor - to-file, Grace Period, and Prior art effect of application & patents.
JIPA delegation introduced a Japanese e-filing software and update on recent IP High Court Judgment.
