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BLOG@IP::JURPatent Attorney Axel H Horns' Blog on Intellectual Property Law.
Sunday, January 27, 2008Speculations About Multilateral Patent Reforms of the Future (Cont'd).About a year ago I had posted a text titled Speculations About Multilateral Patent Reforms of the Future.The New Route Proposal is an  initiative of the Japanese Patent Office presented to the Trilateral Summit of European, US and Japanese Patent Offices in Munich on November 17, 2005. Under the new route proposal, it is possible for applicants to obtain an extra 18 months for processing at the national or regional level provided certain steps are taken on filing. Prof. Dennis Crouch now has unearthed another paper titled New Route Pilot Project between the United States Patent and Trademark Office and the Japanese Patent Office."[...] The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and the Japanese Patent Office (JPO) have been considering a proposal for work-sharing called the "New Route". Under the New Route framework, a filing in one office that is party to this arrangement would be deemed a filing in all member offices. The first office and applicant would be given a 30-month processing time frame in which to make available a first office action and any necessary translations to second office(s), an the second office(s) would exploit the search and examination results in conducting their own examination. [...] Because the New Route, as envisaged, would require changes in law in the USPTO and the JPO, the USPTO and the JPO agreed, at the May 2007 Trilateral Technical Meeting, to commence a pilot project to test the New Route concept based on the two filing scenarios currently available under existing law in both offices. [...]"The New Route pilot project will commence in both offices on January 28, 2008, i.e. to-morrow. The pilot project will, however, be terminated once 50 applications have been accepted into the pilot project by each office, or on January 28, 2009, whichever occurs first. Applicants having a pending application satisfying a list of criteria can volunteer for participation in the pilot project by sending a fax to Ms Magdalen Greenlief, Assistant Commissioner for Patents at the USPTO. Technorati Tags:  Patents
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