Finished Projects

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.

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.

The project aims at information sharing and comparative study of design non-patent literature data resources among the five partner offices, and the project will be studied from four aspects.

The five Partner Offices have certain diverse laws and practices regarding the foreign priority right system for industrial designs. To better understand the differences, an in-depth comparative study on foreign priority right systems for industrial designs was conducted.

The purpose of the “Comparative study of practices concerning product indications” is to allow a better understanding of the respective differences among the practices of the ID5 Offices for the benefit of Offices and users.

The purpose of the “Update of the Catalogue of View and Drawing Requirements” Project is to update the current catalogue that was approved during the design session of the TM5 meeting in 2013, in particular taking into consideration the recent adhesion to The Hague Agreement of the USPTO and JPO. Further the catalogue needs to be geographically extended to China, SIPO being one of the ID5 Partners since 2015. Finally, a maintenance methodology needs to be defined.

To broaden the mutual understanding amomg Partners through the sharing of basic legal information, such information as on design protection systems and regitrability reqirements.

To catalogue and compare the provisions related to a grace period for industrial designs for each of the Partners, and how the grace period is applied in respective jurisdictions.

To catalogue and compare the provisions related to the protection of partial designs for each of the Partners (i.e., a designs for less than the entire article/product), including use of broken lines and other depiction mechanisms.