The Website of the Trilateral Co-operation
The Trilateral Users Meeting 2006
Trilateral Offices and Users Conference
“Trilateral Offices and Users Cooperation
on the Worldwide Trend in
Increasing Patent Applications”
Tokyo, 16 November 2006
Public Conference
“Orizuru Rei” in Hotel New Otani Tokyo
Institute of Intellectual Property 
Photo gallery
| 13:30 | Opening | |
| 13:35 - 15:00 | Part 1: Presentations
from the Trilateral Patent Offices “Policy Development on the Worldwide Trend in Increasing Patent Applications” Moderator: Yoichi Omori, Executive Director, IIP |
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| 13:35 - 13:50 | Domestic and International
Initiatives of the JPO (Translation: English JPO ) Makoto Nakajima, Commissioner, Japan Patent Office |
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| 13:50 - 14:05 | Challenges
facing the global patent system - Text EPO Alain Pompidou, President, European Patent Office |
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| 14:05 - 14:20 | Managing Workloads Through Global Cooperation Jon W. Dudas, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of United States Patent and Trademark Office |
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| 14:20 - 14:40 | Questions and answers | |
| 14:40 - 15:00 | Coffee break | |
| 15:00 - 17:00 | Part 2: Presentations
from the Trilateral Users and Discussions “Needs and Subjects of Users in relation to the Worldwide Trend in Increasing Patent Application” Moderator: Sadao Nagaoka, Professor, Hitotsubashi University |
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| 15:00 - 15:15 | JIPA: Trilateral Users Meeting (Translation: English JIPA ) Kazuo Kamisugi, President of JIPA |
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| 15:15 - 15:30 | UNICE: Stricter Examination to Address the Workload
Issue Thierry Sueur, Vice-Chairman of UNICE’s Patents Working Group |
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| 1 5:30 - 15:40 | IPO: Legal Certainty For Patent System Users Herbert C. Wamsley, Executive Director of IPO |
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| 15:40 - 15:50 | AIPLA: Needs of Users Michael K Kirk, Executive Director of AIPLA |
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| 15:50 - 17:00 | Discussions | |
| 17:00 | Conclusions and closure of the meeting | |
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| All day | Booths of Trilateral Co-operation and Trilateral Offices | |
