• European Patent Office

• Japan Patent Office

• United States Patent and Trademark Office

• Trilateral cooperation page at JPO (Japanese)

• Electronic business, data standardisation and networks
  The efficient processing of patent applications using e-processing tools aims to contribute to the mastering of the Offices' workloads stemming from the growth in filings
• Priority Document Exchange
• Use of work results and exchange of patent examiners
  The goal of these projects is to determine to what extent one Office can benefit from the results achieved by its trilateral partners in order to reduce the duplication of work. 
• Documentation, harmonisation of classification, Machine translation systems
  The offices are working to offer the most complete and best classified documentation to their examiners
• Information Policy
  A joint policy of dissemination of patent information products was adopted by the Trilateral Offices.
• Legal Issues
  The harmonisation of patent laws and of patent procedures.
• Management Information Reports
• Biotechnology
  The Trilateral Offices are currently co-operating on the creation of a non redundant patent sequence database and on comparative studies on specific topics within the field of biotechnology
• Other projects

Last modified: December 14 2007 16:17:10.