KIPO
To develop and maintain a website in order to effectively share—with each other and with users—primary information concerning each Partner’s design regimes and shared priorities, as well as the details and progress of various cooperative projects.
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CNIPA
USPTO
To determine the feasibility and implementation timelines for Partners joining the WIPO Digital Access Service (DAS) based priority document exchange system and/or SIPO’s Verifiable Priority Document (VPD) system.
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KIPO
USPTO
This project compares the provisions and practices of the ID5 Partner Offices and the Hague System regarding specific tools and legal effects that can postpone the publication of designs and restrictions on enforcement of the rights under the unpublished condition.
How the applicant decides when to publish the design varies by jurisdiction: Deferment of initiation of examination at the application stage, deferment of publication after registration, providing predictable examination period provided by the office. In this project, we take into account all the methods that can delay the aforementioned publication of industrial design applications or industrial design rights.
The purpose of this catalogue is to promote users’ understanding of each jurisdiction’s design publication deferment system and use it in design management strategies.
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JPO
USPTO
The project aims firstly to understand each country and region’s system for identifying/indicating protected designs beyond the official design register or gazette. Additionally, the project will identify any information that each Partner Office, within its possible range, collected and recorded regarding how often the indications are utilized, and highlight any beneficial effects of clear indications for protected/registered designs (Phase 1). It also aims secondly to enhance the beneficial effect of design rights in ID5 partner countries and regions, while alternatively contributing to extensive promotion of the design system per se (Phase 2).
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CNIPA
JPO
According to the progress and study results, the ID5 offices can also discuss the possibility of sharing some information with the public, or conducting further study, such as implementing information sharing on some specific subjects of common interests in quality management.
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USPTO
The aim of the project “Study of Term of Protection and the Manner and Framework for Obtaining that Term of Protection for Industrial Design rights” is to compare the provisions and different practices related to the various terms of protection for industrial designs. The purpose will be to identify where legal frameworks and office practices meet user needs to protect industrial design and to identify where legal frameworks and office practices could potentially be enhanced.
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EUIPO
The project aims to produce a Handbook explaining how and when the examiners of the five Partner Offices assess designs starting with the fundamental step of interpreting the graphical representations of designs fulfilling the view and drawing requirements.
The Handbook will help applicants better understand substantive examination by explaining how the five Partner countries interpret and assess the graphical representations of their applications.
The resources required for the present project are similar to the one for the Catalogue in gathering of information of practises currently applied by the partners of ID5.
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