ACTIVITIES CONDUCTED WITH FOREIGN IP OFFICES
ACTIVITIES CONDUCTED WITH FOREIGN IP OFFICES
Historical bilateral and multilateral activities conducted with foreign Intellectual Property offices
| Month | S.No | Description |
|---|---|---|
| March 2025 | 1 | An Online IP Manthan program was conducted with DKPTO on "Information sharing session to understand the Unitary Patent and the Unified Patent Court" on 5th March 2025. |
| 2 | A meeting between the Japanese Companies and O/o CGPDTM was held in Aloft, Aerocity, New Delhi on 7th March 2025. | |
| 3 | An online program on "Opposition Systems in India and Japan" was held between JPO and O/o CGPDTM on 10th March 2025. | |
| 4 | A meeting between the JPO and O/o CGPDTM was held on "General Procedures for Trademarks Filing and Registration" at NLU Delhi on 21st March 2025. | |
| 5 | A meeting between the DKPTO and O/o CGPDTM was held on "Design and Use of Patents Manual" at NLU Delhi on 21st March 2025. | |
| February 2025 | 1 | An online IP Manthan program on "Understanding the TM Filing System in the EUIPO and the O/o CGPDTM, India" was conducted on 19th February 2025. |
| 2 | An online session was conducted between O/o CGPDTM and DKPTO on "General Procedures for Trademarks Filing and Registration" on 14th February 2025. | |
| 3 | An online session was conducted between O/o CGPDTM and JPO on "Best Practices Exchange in Design Examination" on 12th February 2025. | |
| December 2024 | 1 | An online session was conducted between O/o CGPDTM and EUIPO on "Design Systems" on 10th December 2024. |
| 2 | A review meeting between the JPO, O/o CGPDTM and DPIIT to review the Action Plan and new cooperation proposals was organized at Vanijya Bhawan, Delhi on 13th December 2024. | |
| 3 | Two officials from O/o CGPDTM participated in the "JPO/IPR Operational Patent Examination Training Program (OPET)" from Oct-Nov 2024 (Online) and 9th-18th December 2024 (Offline). | |
| 4 | An online session was conducted between O/o CGPDTM and USPTO on the administration of USPTO's Manual of Patent Examining Procedure (MPEP) on 17th December 2024. | |
| November 2024 | 1 | An official from the O/o CGPDTM participated in Danida Fellowship Centre (DFC) program from 28th October to 19th November 2024 in Denmark. |
| 2 | An online session was conducted between O/o CGPDTM and DKPTO on "Best practices exchange in Design examination" on 13th November 2024. | |
| 3 | An official from the O/o CGPDTM participated in the WIPO-PCT Regional Seminar for ASEAN IP Offices from 27th to 29th November 2024 in WIPO Singapore Office. | |
| October 2024 | 1 | An official from the O/o CGPDTM attended the Advanced InterGI Europe 2024 training organized by CIRAD and REDD under the WIPO Grant in Espelette, France from 30th September to 5th October 2024. |
| 2 | A virtual meeting on "Hague Industrial Designs Agreement" between the O/o CGPDTM and the USPTO was conducted on 30th October 2024. | |
| 3 | Two Indian IP practitioners attended the JPO/IPR Training Course for Practitioners Specializing in Patents conducted in hybrid mode from 18th September to 15th October 2024 (online) and from 30th October to 7th November 2024 (in-person) in Tokyo, Japan. | |
| September 2024 | 1 | One official from the O/o CGPDTM participated in the JPO/IPR Training course for IP Trainers organized from 27th August to 6th September 2024 (Online) and 24th September to 2nd October 2024 (Offline). |
| 2 | Two IP Officials attended the Program on "Protection of GIs in South Asia Region", organized by USPTO's South Asia Office with Global Intellectual Property Academy (GIPA) in cooperation with Sri Lanka from September 4 to September 6, 2024. | |
| August 2024 | 1 | A workshop was organized by O/o CGPDTM, CBC and DKPTO on "Inventive step assessment using the EPO's Problem Solution Approach" on 28th August 2024 in Delhi. |
| 2 | A round table program by O/o CGPDTM, DKPTO and CSIR was conducted on "Patenting of Inventions from Biotechnology and Biomedical fields" on 30th August 2024 in NCL Pune. | |
| July 2024 | 1 | An online session on "Pharmaceuticals, Biotechnology and TKDL Issues" between Taiwan and the O/o CGPDTM was held on 3rd July 2024. |
| 2 | An online knowledge-sharing session was conducted with DKPTO on 4th July 2024 on "Disclosure requirements present in our respective domestic systems in view of Article 3 of the WIPO Treaty on Intellectual Property, Genetic Resources and Associated Traditional Knowledge". | |
| 3 | One IP official from the O/o CGPDTM attended Summer School program of the Center for International Intellectual Property (IP) Studies (CEIPI) University of Strasbourg from 25th June to 6th July 2024 in Strasbourg, France. | |
| June 2024 | 1 | A virtual session on QMS and ISO requirements was conducted by DKPTO and O/o CGPDTM on 20th June 2024. |
| 2 | One IP official from the O/o CGPDTM attended New Southbound Intellectual Property Conference scheduled for 18th and 19th June 2024 in Taiwan. | |
| 3 | A WIPO-RGNIPM Advanced Training Course on Patent Search and Examination for Asia and the Pacific was conducted from 24th to 28th June 2024 in New Delhi. | |
| 4 | An online IP Manthan program on "GI Protection System in India and Russia" was successfully conducted on 27th June 2024. | |
| May 2024 | 1 | A collaborative USPTO-IPO "Seminar on the Protection of Geographical Indications" was held in Kanchipuram on 8th and 9th May 2024 followed by an excursion to a local GI production facility. |
| April 2024 | 1 | A Seminar to share best practices on the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) by each IP Office was conducted on 9th April 2024 between the JPO and IPO. |
| 2 | An online information exchange session on Trade Marks was held with UKIPO on 10th April 2024. | |
| 3 | An online IP Manthan program on "Appeal systems (TMs and Designs) in India and EUIPO" was conducted on 12th April 2024. | |
| 4 | An online session on "Trade Marks Comprising Geographical Names and Examination Guidelines on Likelihood of Confusion" was conducted between Taiwan and the O/o CGPDTM on 18th April 2024. | |
| 5 | Joint UKIPO-O/o CGPDTM World IP Day event was held at NLU, Delhi on 25th April 2024. | |
| March 2024 | 1 | A High-Level Webinar for IP Practitioners in India was organized by the WIPO-CIPAM in collaboration with IPO, India and UKIPO on 6th March 2024. |
| 2 | A WIPO Master Class on IP Adjudication was conducted by WIPO in New Delhi from 7th to 9th March 2024. | |
| January 2024 | 1 | An online meeting on the "Copyright registration practices in the USPTO" was conducted on 19th January 2024. |
| December 2023 | 1 | An online IP Manthan program with EUIPO on "Unveiling the New EU Regulation on Geographical Indications" was conducted on 19th December 2023. |
| November 2023 | 1 | Terms of reference for Management workshops between the O/o CGPDTM and DKPTO were held from 23rd to 24th November 2023. |
| 2 | An online information exchange session on the best practices on patent examination was conducted between PRV, Sweden and O/o CGPDTM on 30th November 2023 from 2:30 to 3:30 p.m. | |
| October 2023 | 1 | An online session on "Streamlining the patent filing procedure" was conducted between the UKIPO and the O/o CGPDTM on 4th October 2023. |
| 2 | An online information exchange session was conducted between CIPO and O/o CGPDTM on "Education tools and resources to build respect for IP" in October 2023. | |
| 3 | An information exchange program on "Initiatives on IP awareness" was held between PRV, Sweden and O/o CGPDTM on 26th October 2023. | |
| 4 | The Director General of WIPO, Mr. Daren Tang visited India from October 11-13, 2023 and met higher officials from different ministries to discuss contemporary issues in the IP field. | |
| September 2023 | 1 | A physical meeting between the CGPDTM and DDG DKPTO was held in Mumbai in September 2023 to discuss a concept note: Green IP Highway. |
| 2 | An online session on Streamlining the patent filing procedure was conducted between the USPTO and the O/o CGPDTM on 25th September 2023 from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. (IST). | |
| August 2023 | 1 | A webinar on IP tools for customers available at the DKPTO home page was held for one hour from 2:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. on 29th August 2023. |
| May 2023 | 1 | A one-hour online session of IP Manthan on "Role of TTOs in Universities and Research Institutes for IP Awareness, IP Generation and IP Commercialisation" was conducted on 1st May 2023. |
| 2 | A one-week workshop on quality management system (QMS) was conducted by the DKPTO in the month of May at IPO Delhi. | |
| 3 | An online meeting was held between IPO, CBC and DKPTO on 15th May 2023 on the topic "Sharing of best practices in capacity building of employees". | |
| 4 | The USPTO in conjunction with the U.S. National Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center held a workshop on Intellectual Property Rights Investigative Methods Workshop (IPRIM) from 15th to 19th May 2023 at Kathmandu, Nepal. | |
| 5 | An IPO-USPTO Joint Program was held on the topic "Patent Office Administration" and "Patent Post-grant Proceedings" between the USPTO and O/o CGPDTM from 24th to 26th May 2023. | |
| April 2023 | 1 | A session on "Sharing of best practices - IP Awareness Generation Campaigns" was conducted with DKPTO on 19th April 2023. |
| March 2023 | 1 | An online session was conducted by the US government agencies on enforcement mechanism in the USA on 9th March 2023. |
| February 2023 | 1 | A meeting between CGPDTM and the Intellectual Property Group consisting of Japanese companies (IPG) was held in New Delhi on 3rd February 2023. |
| 2 | A programme on "IP for Development-Learning from the WIPO Best Practices" was held on 8th February 2023 at IIC, Delhi. The event was chaired by JS, DPIIT and attended by Mr. Andrew Michael Ong, Director, Division for Asia and the Pacific, WIPO, Head of IP Offices and other IP officials. | |
| 3 | A bilateral meeting was held between President, EAPO and the CGPDTM on the sidelines of World Intellectual Property Forum on 20th February 2023 in Bengaluru. | |
| 4 | CGPDTM-USPTO joint events were conducted in Guwahati and Imphal on 14th February 2023 and 16th February 2023 respectively. Two officials from IP India joined the events. | |
| 5 | US TPF IP Working Group Meeting was conducted in online mode on 28th February 2023. | |
| January 2023 | 1 | A one-week workshop on quality management system (QMS) was conducted by the DKPTO from 30th January 2023 to 3rd February 2023 at IPO Delhi. |
| December 2022 | 1 | A technical workshop on Cooperation, Examination and Practices was conducted for representatives of the IP Office of India by EUIPO from 5th to 7th December 2022 in New Delhi. |
| October 2022 | 1 | A one-week workshop on quality management system (QMS) was conducted by the DKPTO from 17th to 21st October 2022 at IPO Delhi. |
| September 2022 | 1 | An information exchange program on Opposition Procedures was conducted between USPTO and O/o CGPDTM from 7th September to 9th September 2022 in New Delhi. |
| 2 | A Design knowledge exchange program was conducted between DKPTO and O/o CGPDTM in Kolkata from 19th September to 20th September 2022. | |
| 3 | A Trademark knowledge exchange program was conducted between DKPTO and O/o CGPDTM in Mumbai from 22nd September to 23rd September 2022. | |
| May 2022 | 1 | An introductory meeting on Industrial Designs was held in the Designs Wing, Kolkata from 12th to 13th May 2022. Both sides presented their respective practices regarding registration of designs and related administrative and practical aspects including cancellations/revocations. |
| 2 | An introductory meeting on Trade Marks was held in the Trade Mark Registry, Mumbai on 17th May 2022. Both sides presented their respective practices regarding registration of trademarks and related administrative and practical aspects including oppositions and cancellations. | |
| 3 | A one-week workshop on Quality Management System (QMS) was conducted by the DKPTO from 23rd to 27th May 2022 at IPO Delhi. | |
| April 2022 | 1 | Four Officers from the Indian Patent Office participated in the course "Fostering Innovation and Commercialization of IPR" under the DFC Scholarship Program in Denmark in April-May 2022. |
