PIUG 2021 - Wednesday

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PIUG 2021  WEDNESDAY  Virtual Meeting

 W E D N E S D A Y M O R N I N G 8 : 0 0 A M – 12 : 2 5 P M

Growing Transparency of Examination in the PCT National Phases Lutz Mailänder (World Intellectual Property Organization) 10:15 – 10:50 am  ABSTRACT With its entry into various national phases, the examination of an International Application (PCT) commences in many of these national phases at almost the same time. Various national phase examination work products are established by and by, which complement the international phase work products. Public access to these work products has greatly improved during the recent years. More national registers permit public file inspection, and ‘one-stop-shop’ type portals like Global Dossier and WIPO-CASE facilitate the access to these work products. Tools like the Common Citation Document facilitate the comparison of work products. This increasing transparancy is beneficial not only for patent examiners who may easily utilize the foreign work products; it also enables third parties to monitor the status of national phase examination and compare outcomes. The presentation will compare, from a user perspective, the different resources for researching patent family relations, legal status of family members and the work products available for each family member, and demonstrate how they complement each other. Final results of national examination are sometimes quite different; this has implications for quality management of examination and initiatives like the Patent Prosecution Highway or cooperative examination.  BIOGRAPHIES Mr. Lutz Mailänder, national of Germany, is the Head of the Cooperation on Examination and Training Section in the PCT International Cooperation Division of WIPO. He manages WIPO’s International Cooperation for Examination (ICE) service that provides support for substantive patent examination to patent offices in developing countries, and coordinates WIPO activities related to the training of substantive patent examiners. He was previously the Head of the Patent Information Section, where he coordinated WIPO’s patent information services for developing countries and WIPO activities related to patent analytics and legal status; prior to this he was the Head of the International Patent Classification (IPC) Section, where he managed the revision of the IPC. Before joining WIPO, he worked for almost ten years as a patent examiner at the German Intellectual Property Office (DPMA) in the field of physics, and spent almost two years as a visiting scientist at Cornell University, New York. He holds a PhD in solid state physics from the Ludwig-Maximilians Universität, Munich, and a certificate in Management of International Organizations of the University of Geneva (IOMBA).