The Industrial Design 5 (ID5), consisting of five advanced design countries, will gather in one place to brainstorm the development direction of the international design application system.
On the 24th, the Korean Intellectual Property Office (KIPO) announced that ID5, composed of Korea, the United States, Japan, China, and the European Union, will hold a "Workshop on Comparing Examination Results of International Design Applications" for two days starting from the 25th in Tokyo, Japan.
The workshop was arranged as a new cooperative project proposed by KIPO during the ID5 annual meeting held in Korea last September. This workshop, jointly led by KIPO and the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), will be held for two days following the ID5 mid-term meeting in Japan on the 24th.
ID5 currently leads the formation of international norms in the design field. During the workshop, the current status and issues of each country's international design application system will be discussed, and future development directions will be explored.
On the first day of the workshop, the five offices will mainly present the examination standards and practical practices applied to the examination of international design applications. On the following day, cases where the reasons for refusal or examination results differ among the five countries for commonly filed international design applications will be selected for mutual comparison and analysis of each office's examination process.
In addition to ID5 international design officials, the Director of International Design Applications at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) will participate in the workshop to collaboratively contribute to the user-friendly development of the international design application system.
The international design application system is also known as the industrial design international application under the Hague Agreement. The core of this system is that by submitting a single design application to the WIPO International Bureau, applicants can achieve the effect of simultaneous applications in multiple countries that are parties to the agreement. This system has been in effect since July 1, 2014.
Gu Young-min, Director of the Trademark and Design Examination Bureau at KIPO, said, "The workshop will be an opportunity for ID5 to share different examination processes and results, serving as a starting point to seek harmonization of design systems among countries." He added, "It is also expected to significantly contribute to improving the quality of international design examinations."
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