for patents, trademarks and designs filed at the JPO, KIPO and SIPO has accounted for more than half of the total filed worldwide across all forms of IP. “It is becoming more and more important
to increase cooperation between Japan, China and Korea,” he says, adding that the relationship between the three has been strengthened since the 1990s. Te annual Trilateral Policy Dialogue
Meeting has been held every year since 2001 and, in recent years, the three offices have analysed details of examinations, and trial and appeal practices at the offices, in an attempt to assess the commonalities and differences of laws, regulations and examination guidelines. “Trough these cooperative activities, we
would like to enhance the practical capabilities of examiners at the JPO, KIPO and SIPO in order to achieve international harmonisation of examination practices,” Ito explains. Te JPO has also established cooperative
relationships with developing and emerging countries in Asia, Africa, and Central and Latin America.
Tis has involved sending experts including examiners to these countries, receiving trainees
information and communications technology sectors. “At a time when economic competition has
BETWEEN JAPAN,
from IP offices or the private sector in the nations, and providing support to improve their IP systems by holding seminars and workshops.
Ito clearly has a plan but what was it that made globalisation one of his priorities? He tells WIPR that during the last
ten
years the world economy has changed at
an unprecedented speed through the
“digital revolution and the globalisation of markets”, and as a result of innovation in the
greatly changed, I oſten ask myself whether our IP system has sufficiently kept up with so many changes that have been happening around the world. “As JPO commissioner, I acknowledge
that it is my mission to listen carefully to the opinions of industry and users of the system, as well as to execute our initiatives accordingly,” he says. Te JPO’s two aims are commendable and
clearly crucial to IP development. Launching initiatives including the GPPH and increasing cooperation with neighbouring countries and those further afield will help to create a degree of harmonisation. While cutting examination times is a necessity, the challenge will be to ensure that with a focus on speed, the quality of work does not suffer as a consequence. One thing does remain certain: with annual
IP applications in the hundreds of thousands, and JPO examiners having been used to assessing more patents than some of their counterparts, it seems it could be a while before the sun sets on innovation and IP in Japan.
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