United States Patent and Trademark Office and Korean Intellectual Property Office Collaborative Search Pilot Program
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is initiating a joint Work Sharing Pilot Program with the Korean Intellectual Patent Office (KIPO) to study whether the exchange of search reports between offices for corresponding counterpart applications improves patent quality and facilitates the examination of patent applications in both offices. In the pilot program, each office will concurrently conduct a prior art search for its corresponding counterpart application. The search report from each office will then be exchanged between offices before either office issues a communication concerning patentability to the applicant. As a result of this exchange of search reports, the examiners in both offices may have a more comprehensive set of references before them when making an initial patentability determination. Each office will accord special status to its counterpart application to first action. First Action Interview (FAI) pilot program procedures will be applied during the examination of the U.S. application and make the Korean search report of record concurrently with the issuance of a Pre-Interview Communication.
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- www.federalregister.gov/documents/2015/07/09/2015-16850/united-states-patent-and-trademark-office-and-korean-intellectual-property-office-collaborative (permanent link in the Federal Register, verified 2026-09-30)
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- 2015-07-09
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- USPTO documents published in the Federal Register (Federal Register API)(retrieved 2026-10-06)
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