Trilateral Offices

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Trilateral Offices, or Trilateral Patent Offices, are a group of patent offices consisting of the European Patent Office (EPO), the Japan Patent Office (JPO) and the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). 89 % of the patents in force in the world are either European patents, Japanese patents or US patents [1].

[edit] See also

• Patent family
• Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT)
• Triadic patent

• European patent law
• Japanese patent law
• United States patent law

[edit] External links

• Trilateral web site
• Trilateral Statistical Reports from 1996 to 2004