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BLOG@IP::JURPatent Attorney Axel H Horns' Blog on Intellectual Property Law.
Wednesday, January 25, 2006Issue 01/2006 of the Official Journal of the EPO has been Published on the EPO Website.Today, Issue 01/2006 of the Official Journal of the EPO has been published on the EPO website.For those who are interested in patent politics, there is a Report on the 104th meeting of the Administrative Council of the European Patent Organisation (13 to 15 December 2005) available."[...] The Council noted the report on the 23rd Trilateral Conference, held in Munich on 18 November 2005. It was informed in particular of serious problems facing the United States Patent and Trademark Office and the Japanese Patent Office as a result of the continuing rise in the number of patent applications. The same problems affected the European Patent Office, which was directing all its efforts towards mastering its workload, but was determined not to compromise the quality of its services. The three trilateral offices had agreed to improve the "co-ordinated communication" of their activities to the public, especially concerning the draft Substantive Patent Law Treaty. [...]"A serious condition indeed but it also shows the continuing acceptance of the patent system by the industry. Technorati Tags: Patents, European Patent Office, Administrative Council
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