1 1 AIPLA Firm Logo American Intellectual Property Law Association “The Global Dossier Initiative” Anthony Venturino – Novak Druce Connolly Bove + Quigg LLP Washington, D.C. Joint CIPA AIPLA Meting Monday March 11, 2013

2 2 AIPLA Firm Logo 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 THE GLOBAL DOSSIER March 11, 2013

3 3 AIPLA Firm Logo 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 THE GLOBAL DOSSIER March 11, 2013

4 4 AIPLA Firm Logo 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 THE GLOBAL DOSSIER March 11, 2013

5 5 AIPLA Firm Logo 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 THE GLOBAL DOSSIER March 11, 2013

6 6 AIPLA Firm Logo 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 THE GLOBAL DOSSIER March 11, 2013

7 7 AIPLA Firm Logo 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 AU UK Canada THE GLOBAL DOSSIER March 11, 2013

8 8 AIPLA Firm Logo ONE POSSIBLE SCHEDULE OPD, 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 THE GLOBAL DOSSIER March 11, 2013

9 9 AIPLA Firm Logo 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 THE GLOBAL DOSSIER March 11, 2013

10 AIPLA Firm Logo 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: THE GLOBAL DOSSIER March 11, 2013

11 AIPLA Firm Logo Thanks for your attention! Questions? Anthony Venturino, Partner Novak Druce Connolly Bove + Quigg LLP 1875 Eye Street NW, 11 th Floor Washington, DC THE GLOBAL DOSSIER March 11, 2013