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President praises work-sharing and focuses on PCT reform
Work-sharing is the way of the future, bringing benefits for applicants and patent offices world-wide, according to Alison Brimelow, the President of the EPO.
"The EPO believes that the greatest potential for a global work-sharing scheme lies with the PCT, with nearly 164 000 applications filed only last year", she stated in a speech at the AIPLA Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C.
A number of work-sharing schemes have been piloted around the world, the common denominator of which is to take concrete measures which help to eliminate unnecessary duplication of work between offices. From a European perspective, the most important arrangements in this respect are the utilisation scheme of the European Patent Network (EPN), the Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH) and the PCT.
Alison Brimelow stressed that "timeliness, high quality of work-products and confidence-building between offices are the essential ingredients for work-sharing schemes to be successful." The EPO is committed to moving this process of integration forward.
Source: EPO



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