Patent Information Users Group, Inc.

The USPTO would like to invite you or your organisation to attend the 8^th EPO-USPTO Annual Meeting with industry on 29 March 2021, 2:30pm to 5:00pm Central European Summer Time (CEST) (8:30 – 10:30 am EST). This year again, due to the current situation, the event will be conducted online using the Cisco Webex platform.

The objective of this EPO-USPTO joint meeting is to inform industry users of the CPC on the latest and upcoming developments concerning the Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC), as well as to collect your views about the CPC. We would value your participation to the meeting.

You can freely register your participation using our registration platform for the event, by following this link. Registrations are open now and will be closed on 25 March 2021. The contact points for this meeting are Mr Nelson Das Neves (ndasneves@epo.org) for the EPO and Ms Dimple Sopariwala (Dimple.Sopariwala@uspto.gov) for the USPTO.

We will be in touch with the registered participants directly, with regard to further arrangements for the meeting and to assist with the necessary technical connection.