The ongoing partnership between the JPO, developing countries, and the WIPO
According to the JPO, it has dispatched patent examiners to ASEAN IP offices as long-term expertise. In order to create a stronger IP infrastructure, the JPO claims to collaborate with “our partners in developing economies.”
The JPO has dispatched its patent examiners in Indonesia and Vietnam on a long-term basis to support those countries’ IP systems developed in conjunction with the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), a body responsible for managing Japan’s Official Development Assistance (ODA). The expatriates help to streamline patent examination processes, including the updating of examination guidelines, and support initiatives that develop the competence of patent examiners. Their actions aid in the growth of local companies and the enhancement of the investment environment. Such JPO initiatives have a long history, as evidenced by the 2016 “Joint Statement on Cooperation on Industrial Property Rights for Sustainable Economic Development in ASEAN and Japan” and this 2015 reference to such cooperation.
Cooperation Between JPO and WIPO for Developing Economies
In reality, Funds-in-Trust Japan Industrial Property Global facilitates more extensive collaboration with the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) (FIT Japan IP Global). Since 1987, Japan has made voluntary donations to WIPO through FIT Japan IP Global, a company that was founded as a result of these contributions.
At the time it was founded, only the Asia-Pacific region was supported geographically by the FIT Japan IP Global fund; however, in 2008, Africa was included as a geographical area. Additionally, the name of the fund was changed to the “Global Fund” in 2019 so that it may offer assistance everywhere without any geographical restrictions. Since then, it has continued to operate on this foundation.
Japan has given a total of about 9 billion yen throughout the 35 years since it was founded, which has been utilized to help more than 100 countries. Over the years, the Fund has supported a number of initiatives that have helped develop intellectual property (IP) systems in developing nations, including hosting high-level meetings with various members of countries and regions to encourage cooperation in the field of IP, sending experts to develop IP legal systems and operations, hosting various workshops, and assisting with the digitization of IP Offices.
The JPO also focuses heavily on developing the human resources that will be crucial to the advancement of IP systems.
The Trust Funds By supporting WIPO’s initiatives towards the below goals, Japan IP Global, while fully using Japan’s experience and skills in working with developing and least-developed nations in the field of IP, promotes revitalizing IP ecosystems worldwide.
- To establish a world in which innovations originated in developing and least-developed countries are properly protected as IP and commercialized, through establishing self-sustaining IP ecosystems in respective countries;
- To form the Global IP network through connecting systems, people, and information around the IP of respective countries;
- To broaden the roles of IP for economic growth and social vibrancy through fostering deepened understanding of IP among experts in other fields and also the general public; and
- To contribute to the achievement of SDGs by promoting the diffusion of innovative technologies around the globe and implementing activities to solve global issues by using IP.
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