The Delegates of JPO Exchanged Opinions with USPTO

2017/06/21

From June 13 to 14, 2017, the delegates of the Trial and Appeal Department of the JPO visited the PTAB of the USPTO in Alexandria, Virginia in the United States, having the first high-level meeting to exchange opinions on the trial and appeal practice. Mr. Satoshi Moriyasu, Director of the 19th Board of Trial and Appeal of the JPO and Dr. David Ruschke, Chief Administrative Patent Judge of the PTAB of the USPTO attended the meeting. They conferred how to interact with each other as well as exchanged information about practice, etc. concerning oral proceedings and consultations at the JPO and the USPTO.

Source: JPO