TOKYO, July 14 -- Japan Patent Office issued the following news:
From June 8 to 12, 2026, the Japan Patent Office (JPO) held an *Examiner Exchange Program* with the Spanish Patent and Trademark Office (OEPM).
The JPO held Examiner Exchange Programs with the OEPM back in 2011 through 2013, and another one last year by inviting OEPM examiners to Japan. In this year's program, we dispatched our examiners to the OEPM in Madrid.
Participants in the program were five JPO examiners and six OEPM examiners respectively in charge of one of five technical fields: dynamo-electronic machines and control; heating, refrigerating, and air-conditioning engineering; medical device; genetic engineering; and cell engineering. They exchanged information on s...