I am now in Yokohama attending the FICPI 2008 Symposium. I had today an interesting session with Commissioner Takashi Suzuki of the 特許庁 (Japanese Patent Office).
The JPO is working on interesting projects aimed to "raise the bar". Not only the Japanese Patent Office has been a leader for promoting the Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH), but the Japanese Patent Office is now working on a couple of other exciting projects which are, inter alia:
1. The "Seamless search environment". In this project, the JPO is gathering prior art references from various Japanese universities and companies.
2. The "Community Patent Review (CPR)". In this project a "community patent review" operation center receives feedback from various (outsourced) reviewers. About 250 patent applications have been reviewed according to this new method.
Finally I have learnt that there is a superhighway in Japan where you can get a first office action in one month! So far 50 applications has enjoyed this special treatment.
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