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Participation in the 71th PDG IMPACT Meeting, and Visit to EPO and DPMA
From 14 to 19 April, 2016, JIPA's Information Search Committee sent a 3-membered delegation led by Vice President Inoue (Sysmex) to the 71th Patent Documentation Group (PDG) IMPACT Meeting held in Hague, the Netherlands, EPO, the German Patent and Trademark Office, and Hoffmann Eitle (a German patent attorney's office). In our third attendance at the PDG IMPACT Meeting, the delegation exchanged opinions with the main members of the PDG, a European user organization, officers of European patent offices, and persons from a European database company to improve the efficiency of IP information search. Furthermore, we exchanged opinions about the Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC) in EPO, about a method of search for transferred patents in the German Patent and Trademark Office, and about circumstances of patents in Europe toward the European Unitary Patent in Hoffmann Eitle.
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