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American Intellectual Property Law Association
“The Global Dossier Initiative”
Anthony Venturino – Novak Druce Connolly Bove + Quigg LLPWashington, D.C.
Joint CIPA AIPLA MetingMonday March 11, 2013
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WHAT IS IT?
The Global Dossier is a single, global portal for all stakeholders working on patent filings in multiple offices.
One Stop Viewing Cross-Filing
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WHAT IS IT?
The Global Dossier is a information technology system that may support the following functions
Cross Filing and Portfolio Management Work sharing between Offices Real-time collaboration of examiner-applicant, examiner-
examiner, and third-party Machine translation Exchange of non-patent literature citations Support for due diligence for acquisitions, licensing, appeals,
litigation
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POTENTIAL ADVANTAGES TO USERS
Help users better manage intellectual capital while saving costs Provide One Stop View so examiners and applicants can
simultaneously check multinational examination information. Facilitate preplanned cross-filings
Permit applicants to easily re-file an existing application with another patent office
Prevent inadvertent loss of right due to missing fee payments or filing deadlines
Provide one-portal to pay fees and manage cross-filed applications with secure access
Benefit from new technology, such as machine translations Technical harmonization will show areas for future procedural
and substantive harmonization Eliminate duplicate filings of priority documents
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POTENTIAL ADVANTAGES TO OFFICES
Higher Efficiency
Provides access to search and examination details of other offices Realigns and streamlines IT efforts such as IP5 One Portal
Dossier, WIPO CASE, ePCT
Global Compatibility Becomes more useful with increased harmonization and
understanding of differing practices
Higher Quality Enhances work sharing leverage through information
exchange and examiner collaboration to achieve higher quality
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KEY ORGANIZATIONS FOR THE GLOBAL DOSSIER
Trilateral Offices Initially proposed by the USPTO in 2011 and further developed with
the JPO
IP5 Offices In June 2012 the IP5 agreed to move forward on the Global Dossier In January 2013 the IP5 held a working group meeting for additonal
planning
WIPO The Vancouver Group has partnered with WIPO to the Centralised
Access to Search and Examination (CASE). It is a digital library of search and examination reports that will be accessible via existing WIPO’s technical infrastructure.
User Groups Provide feedback, suggestions and encouragement
Other Patent Offices
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CONCEPT DIAGRAM OF GLOBAL DOSSIER
OPD(EPO)
CASE(WIPO)
OPD(SIPO)
OPD(JPO)
OPD(KIPO
)
OPD(USPTO)
KOMPASS
KIPRIS
특허로
Sponsor Nat.Indonesia
Thailand
PatentScope
ePCT
ESPACENET
CCD
Other Offices
AUUK
Canada
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ONE POSSIBLE SCHEDULE
2013 2014 2015 2016OPD, CASE, PatentScope, CCD Analysis + Design for System Linkage
OPD, CASE, PatentScope, CCD Linkage Development
One Stop View Analysis + Design
Cross-Filing Policy, Tech Analysis & Design
One Stop View System Development
Cross-Filing System Development
2017
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NEXT STEPS
Technical and legal analyses are underway at the key
organizations
Connectivity testing among the IP5 Offices will begin in April -
First step towards the first building block of Global Dossier which
is access to the search and examination results of the IP5 offices
Key organizations (or the Task Force) are set to conduct
outreach to gather input from all interested parties –
in line with commitment by the Offices to an inclusive and
transparent process for defining requirements
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RECOMMENDATIONS
Encourage user participation in development of the Global
Dossier
Encourage offices to provide mechanisms for user feedback
Encourage offices to consider changing procedures and rules
which interfere with its implementation
A video describing the Global Dossier is available at the following
link: http://www.uspto.gov/patents/int_protect/gbldssr/index.jsp
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Thanks for your attention! Questions?
Anthony Venturino, PartnerNovak Druce Connolly Bove + Quigg LLP
1875 Eye Street NW, 11th FloorWashington, DC 20006
+1-202-659-0100
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