Technical Assistance Database: Activity Details

Title: WIPO National Workshops for Patent Examiners on the Utilization of External Patent Examination Results, in Bangkok, Thailand, from November 21 to 23, 2012, and in Hanoi, Viet Nam from November 26 to 28, 2012
Description: The dates/places of the workshops are as given below: 1. Bangkok, Thailand from November 21 to 23, 2012 and 2. Hanoi, Viet Nam from November 26 to 28, 2012 The objectives will be to: (i) strengthen patent examination capacities of IP authorities; (ii) improve the efficiency of patent prosecution by utilizing external examination results for patent family members, and build confidence in using such results; and (iii) develop the skills of patent examiners in retrieving external results from various resources (e.g. JPO IPDL and AIPN, Espacenet, Patentscope, US PAIR, ICE) and exploiting them in the national legislative context.
Type: Workshop
IP Subject Area: Multiple IP Fields
WIPO Sector: Division for Asia and the Pacific
Date From: 21/11/2012 - 28/11/2012
Venue City: Bangkok
Venue/Host Country: Thailand
Activity held in Language: English

Beneficiary / Participant Countries

Country Name No. of Members / Participants
Thailand
Total Number of Participants:  0

Owner / Requester

Owner / Requester Name Owner / Requester Type
World Intellectual Property Organization IGO

Organizer

Organizer Name Organizer Type
Japan Patent Office Member State / IP Office
National Office of Industrial Property of Vietnam IGO
Department of Intellectual Property Member State / IP Office