The world's five major intellectual property offices - the European Patent Office (EPO)，the Japan Patent Office (JPO), the Korean Intellectual Property Office (KIPO), the State Intellectual Property Office of the People's Republic of China (SIPO), and the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), also known as "IP5" - have launched a new website to provide information on their joint projects.

The website, www.fiveipoffices.org , will contain news and background on co-operation, in particular on ten joint "Foundation Projects" agreed last year aimed at harmonising the global environment for patent searches and examination and enabling work-sharing among the five offices.

The "Foundation Projects" of five IP offices are concerning database construction, patent examination and search strategy, patent classification, machine translation and personnel training and so on.
                                                                                                     Source: IPR in China