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East Meets West 2007
Forum on patent information from Japan and East Asia
26 - 27 April 2007
Thursday, 26 April 2007
| 14.00 - 18.00 | Afternoon session |
| 14.00 - 14.15 |
Welcome & opening
speech
(C. Edfjäll, Vice-President, DG 4, EPO) |
| 14.15 - 14.30 | Going virtual - the EPO's East Asia forum and virtual helpdesk
(I. Schellner, EPO) |
| 14.30 - 15.00 |
IPC8
and its impact on the JPO’s FI/F-terms classifications
(H. Nakamura, JPO) |
| 15.00 - 15.30 | How SIPO is mastering the workload of an ever increasing number
of applications
(H. Qian, SIPO) |
| 15.30 - 16.00 |
The new Korean utility models and other recent changes in the
Korean patent law
(H. Lim, KIPO) |
| 16.00 - 16.30 | Coffee break |
| 16.30 - 17.00 |
What
is a patent worth? “Patent Atlas” and other
tools for evaluating patents
(K. Tanaka, Intellectual Property Bank) |
| 17.00 - 17.30 |
Patent systems in flux: recent developments in patent legislation
in East Asia
(C. Heath, EPO) |
| 17.30 - 18.00 |
Looking
East: the view from an EPO examiner’s desk
(A. Cohen, EPO) |
| 19.00 - 22.00 |
Evening event |
Friday, 27 April 2007
| 09.00 - 10.00 | Morning session |
| 09.00 - 09.30 |
Japanese
legal status made easy - a demonstration of NRI Cyber Patent’s
visualisation tool
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| 09.30 - 10.00 |
Practical
use of F-terms in industry - a user’s perspective
(R. Osowski, Merck KGaA) |
| 10.00 - 11.00 | Morning coffee with the experts |
| 11.00 - 12.30 | Discussion rounds |
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Discussion A: Challenges when applying for patents in East Asia [Download report as PDF - 266 KB] |
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| Discussion B: FI and
F-term searches on the JPO’s IPDL [Download report as PDF - 16 KB] |
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Discussion C: Korean-English machine translation and other new features on KIPRIS [Download report as PDF - 18 KB] |
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Discussion D: Retrieval of Chinese patent information [Download report as PDF - 17 KB] |
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| 12.30 - 14.00 | Lunch |
| 14.00 - 15.30 | Afternoon session |
| Discussion rounds | |
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Discussion E: Improvements of Asian data coverage on INPADOC and esp@cenet [Download report as PDF - 17 KB] |
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Discussion F: Is machine translation the answer to all our problems? [Download report as PDF - 21 KB] |
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Discussion G: The challenge of finding legal status information for East Asian patent documents [Download report as PDF - 19 KB] |
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| 15.30 - 16.00 | Coffee break |
| 16.00 - 16.30 | Closing session |