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Comparative Study on Examination Practices
- While the Trilateral Offices are working hard to cope with the workload
problems of patent applications, the quality aspect of the examination
is becoming more important. In order to enhance the quality of
the examination, examiners need to understand the invention properly based
on the description. That is to say, to maintain and improve the
level of the quality of the examination, it is a bottom line that an applicant
prepares a well-drafted application.
- Thus, the quality of the examination relies on the quality of the incoming application. In other words, preparing of high quality patent applications leads to enhance the examination quality and also enables applicants to cut cost for making amendments or opinions. In view of these aspects, the Trilateral Offices decided to start this comparative study.
Trilateral Project 12.6 Requirements for Disclosure and Claims
- The Trilateral Offices conducted the comparative study on the requirements
for disclosure and claims in 1990 named Project 12.6 in view
of the harmonization of patent practice. The purpose of the study was to
find facts of each Office’s practice on several issues in detail.
However, as many years have passed since then, the controlling
laws, the regulations, the guidelines and the practices have
been modified and many court cases have been brought. Therefore, the Trilateral
Offices revised the report as a part of the Comparative Study on Examination
Practices above.
- The Revised
Version of the Comparative Study Report on Trilateral Project 12.6 Requirements
for Disclosure and Claims
