East Meets West 2003

09.00 - 10.30

WELCOME TO JAPAN

09.00 - 09.10

Welcome & opening speech
C. Edfjäll, Vice-President, DG 4, EPO
[PDF, 15 KB]

09.10 - 09.20

Keynote speech
W. Pilch, Principal Director Patent Information, EPO
[PDF, 17 KB]

09.20 - 09.55

“Providing Japanese patent information to non-Japanese users”
Y. Fuji, JPO
[PDF, 3.4 MB]

09.55 - 10.20

“The ‘Owake’ automatic IPC classification tool at IPCC ”
M. Shimizu, IPCC
[PDF, 620 KB]

10.30 - 10.45

Coffee break

10.45 - 12.15

JAPANESE DATABASES

10.45 - 11.10

“Quality of IPDL services and future developments”
K. Mukaitsubo, Japio
[PDF, 1 MB]

11.10 - 11.35

“JP-Net, the internet patent information service: an introduction”
M. Nakata, Japan Patent Data Service
[PDF, 2.2 MB]

11.35 - 12.00

“Next Generation PATOLIS & PATOLIS-e”
Y. Takashima, PATOLIS Corp
[PDF, 850 KB]

12.00 - 12.15

Questions & discussion

12.15 - 13.15

Lunch

13.15 - 14.15

JAPANESE PERSPECTIVES

13.15 - 13.40

“Encouraging patent licensing: the NCIPI and its patent licensing database”
K. Kitajima, NCIPI
[PDF, 1 MB]

13.40 - 14.05

“INFOSTA’ s qualifying examinations for Japanese database searchers”
H. Tachibana, INFOSTA
[PDF, 600 KB]

14.05 - 14.15

Questions & discussion

14.15 - 14.30

Coffee break

14.30 - 15.30

JAPAN AND BEYOND

14.30 - 14.55

“Japanese, Chinese and Korean documents on esp@cenet”
H. Pauwels, EPO The Hague
[PDF, 1.3 MB]

14.55 - 15.20

“Korean patent information products and their availability
E. Hwang, KIPO
[PDF, 1.1 MB]

15.20 - 15.30

Questions & discussion

15.30 - 15.45

Coffee break

15.45 - 18.00

Workshops

Workshop A

Expert:

PATOLIS Corp.

Workshop B

“The JPO’s Industrial Property Digital Library”

Expert:

JPO, Japio

Workshop C

“The Japanese FI and F-terms classification systems”

Expert:

JPO, Japio, EPO

18.30 -22.00

Heurigen evening

9.00 - 11.15

Workshops

Workshop A

Expert:

PATOLIS Corp.

Workshop B

“The JPO’s Industrial Property Digital Library”

Expert:

JPO, Japio

Workshop C

“The Japanese FI and F-terms classification systems”

Expert:

JPO, Japio, EPO

11.15 - 11.45

Coffee break

11.45 - 12.30

Discussion of workshop results & closing

12.30 - 13.30

Light lunch