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8 June 2016Patents

IP5 group pledges to respond to AI

The world’s biggest intellectual property offices have pledged to enhance relations with their users and respond to emerging technologies, including artificial intelligence.

In their 9th annual meeting, the heads of five largest IP offices, known as IP5, said they would continue to strengthen and develop cooperation with each other and set out goals for the year ahead.

The group said technologies it would be responding to included artificial intelligence and the so-called internet of things.

“This may be accomplished through sharing of information, exchanging of opinions or studies on the effects of these technologies,” the group said in a statement.

As well as pledging to enhance relations with users and respond to technologies the group said it would also continue to provide high-quality and reliable examination results.

The IP5 group—the European Patent Office (EPO), the Japan Patent Office (JPO), the Korean Intellectual Property Office (KIPO), China’s State Intellectual Property Office (SIPO) and the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)—meets annually to discuss policies and goals.

Together the offices account for around 80% of all patent applications being filed worldwide.

The 2016 meeting, held in Tokyo on June 2, was chaired by Hitoshi Ito, commissioner of the JPO.

Ito was joined by EPO president Benoît Battistelli; Choi Donggyou, commissioner of KIPO; He Zhimin, deputy commissioner of SIPO; and Michelle Lee, director of USPTO.

Francis Gurry, director general of the World Intellectual Property Organization, attended the meeting as an observer.

The group also highlighted achievements from the previous 12 months including improved public access to information and an extension of the Patent Prosecution Highway pilot programme.

The next IP5 Heads of Office meeting will be hosted by the EPO in 2017.

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