经济日报-中国经济网北京7月22日讯 记者从国家知识产权局获悉，北京时间7月21日晚，第十三次中美欧日韩知识产权五局合作局长会议召开，这是五局合作历史上首次以视频会议形式举办的局长会议。会议由中国国家知识产权局（CNIPA）局长申长雨主持，欧洲专利局（EPO）局长安东尼奥?坎普诺斯、日本特许厅（JPO）长官糟谷敏秀、韩国特许厅（KIPO）厅长朴原住和美国专利商标局（USPTO）局长安德烈?扬库参会。世界知识产权组织（WIPO）总干事弗朗西斯?高锐以观察员身份列席会议。

会上，五局局长就新冠肺炎疫情的战略性应对进行了讨论，听取了五局在促进新兴技术和人工智能领域合作、强化程序和实践协调、加强工作共享、提高审查的质量和效率以及进一步提升专利信息服务可及性等方面所取得的进展并批准了这些关键领域的下一步工作。五局局长还强调通过采取迅速行动，五局维持了业务的连续性和合作势头，这展现了五局合作框架快速响应和持续改进的能力。

针对疫情期间和后疫情时代的五局合作，申长雨指出，保障业务稳定高效运行是疫情之下各局面临的共同挑战。中国国家知识产权局采取了多项措施确保全球用户在中国可以获得高质量的专利保护，包括为用户提供多种救济和帮助，加速对外和内部业务的数字化转型，以及通过提供抗击疫情相关技术的在线专利检索平台和专利信息分析报告，充分发挥专利信息对科研创新的支撑作用。他强调，作为全球最大的五个知识产权局，五局在特殊时期要继续加强知识产权保护国际合作，共同应对新冠肺炎疫情的挑战，为各国创新主体和市场主体创造良好创新生态环境。在后疫情时代，应持续聚焦如何更好地利用新兴技术提升五局合作效能，增强知识产权体系在应对疫情等突发事件带来的全球挑战中的作用。他还着重提到产业界参与五局合作的重要性，并欢迎产业界持续为五局合作提供支持。

五局在会上通过了《2020年中美欧日韩知识产权五局合作局长联合声明》，五局局长强调在面对疫情挑战的危机时刻，知识产权在促进经济复苏和创造就业方面发挥着关键作用，重申五局“为用户和公众提供更好的服务，以增强知识产权在激励创新和促进社会经济发展中的作用”的共同承诺，并将继续在应对疫情以及激励推动创新方面采取措施并分享最佳实践，以支持创新者和国际知识产权界为经济和社会复苏做出贡献以及推动五局合作项目进展，推动国际专利环境朝着更加高效、低成本和方便用户的方向发展。

会议决定，日本特许厅将在2021年主办下一次五局合作局长会议。经济日报-中国经济网记者获悉，中美欧日韩知识产权五局合作始于2007年，旨在共同提升知识产权审查质量和审查效率。最新统计数据显示，2019年，五局合计处理了全球约85％的专利申请和93%的PCT国际专利申请的审查工作。今年以来，五局采取了一系列有效措施确保业务运行、减轻疫情影响，并及时向来自五个国家和地区的产业界通报相关措施及工作进展，受到产业界高度赞赏。

联合声明原文：

2020年中美欧日韩知识产权五局合作

局长联合声明

2020年7月21日

中国国家知识产权局（CNIPA）、欧洲专利局（EPO）、日本特许厅（JPO），韩国特许厅（KIPO）和美国专利商标局（USPTO）五大知识产权局（IP5）的局长，于2020年7月21日首次通过视频会议举行了第13次IP5局长会议。本次会议原计划于6月在中国成都召开，但受新冠肺炎疫情影响，延期并以视频会议形式举行。会议由CNIPA局长申长雨主持,世界知识产权组织(WIPO)以观察员身份参会。

五局局长对新冠肺炎疫情表示严重关切，此次大流行对公众的生命健康构成了重大威胁，并给全球经济发展和增长带来了巨大挑战。认识到知识产权（IP）体系一直为全世界人类健康和社会经济发展作出着重大贡献，局长们重申了保护知识产权在支撑研究、创新和创造方面的重要性，这些研究、创新和创造正是各行各业现在应对新冠肺炎疫情所迫切需要的。他们强调，尤其是在危机时刻，知识产权在促进经济复苏和创造就业方面发挥着关键作用。

五局局长还总结了各局所采取的一系列措施，以减轻新冠肺炎疫情对申请人的不利影响，并促进助力抗击疫情的相关创新。其中包括为受疫情影响的各方提供援助和救济，以及为获取专利信息提供便利，这些专利信息包含了和新冠病毒的检测、预防和治疗相关的丰富的技术知识。局长们强调，通过所有这些措施，五局将继续为各国的发明家和研究人员提供高质量的知识产权，以帮助他们吸引投资、拓展新市场以及促进技术转让。

五局将继续与WIPO合作，并支持其为在全球范围内促进和增强平衡的知识产权体系所采取的行动。

五局局长重申了利益相关方的参与对于五局合作的重要性。五局与五局产业界一直保持着密切的联系，让他们及时了解各局应对疫情的措施以及五局各合作项目所取得的进展。局长们欢迎产业界与五局积极合作，并为推动当前和未来的五局项目提供建议。

认识到进一步加强五局合作的重要性以及专利制度的用户对可预见性、质量和及时性的需求，局长们重申了“为用户和公众提供更好的服务，以增强知识产权在激励创新和促进社会经济发展中的作用”的共同承诺。为此，他们确认五局在这一关键时期将继续：

1.在激励推动创新方面采取措施并分享最佳实践，以支持创新者和国际知识产权界为经济和社会复苏做出贡献。

2.推动五局合作项目，以促进在新兴技术和人工智能领域的合作，强化程序和实践的协调，加强工作共享，提高审查的质量和效率，并进一步提升专利信息的可及性。

安东尼奥?坎普诺斯

欧洲专利局局长

糟谷敏秀

日本特许厅局长

朴原住

韩国特许厅局长

申长雨

中国国家知识产权局局长

安德雷?扬库

美国专利商标局局长

2020 Joint Statement of the IP5 Offices (final)

21 July 2020

The heads of the IP5 offices, namely the China National Intellectual Property Administration (CNIPA), the European Patent Office (EPO), the Japan Patent Office (JPO), the Korean Intellectual Property Office (KIPO), and the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), held their 13th annual meeting for the first time via videoconference on 21 July 2020. The meeting was originally scheduled to be held in June in Chengdu, China, but was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The videoconference was chaired by Dr. Shen Changyu, Commissioner of the CNIPA and was also attended by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in an observer capacity.

The five heads of office expressed serious concern over the COVID-19 pandemic, which has posed a major threat to public life and health, and presents an enormous challenge for economic development and growth across the globe. Recognizing that the intellectual property (IP) system has been contributing significantly to human health and socio-economic development all over the world, they reaffirmed the importance of the protection of IP rights to support the research, innovation and creation now urgently needed across a broad range of industries to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic. They emphasized that, especially in times of crisis, IP plays a key role in boosting economic recovery and creating employment.

The IP5 heads also took stock of the measures put in place by each of the five offices to mitigate the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on applicants and to promote innovation that is instrumental in winning the battle against this virus. These include providing assistance and relief to those affected by the outbreak, and continuing to facilitate access to patent information, which presents a wealth of technological knowledge related to the detection, prevention and treatment of COVID-19. They stressed that, through all of these measures, the five offices continue to support inventors and researchers everywhere with high-quality IP rights that help them to attract investment, enter new markets, and foster technology transfer.

The five offices will continue the co-operation with the WIPO and support its activities to uphold and strengthen balanced intellectual property systems around the world.

The heads of office also reaffirmed the importance of stakeholder engagement in IP5 cooperation. The five offices have maintained close communication with IP5 industry associations to keep them informed about both the offices’ measures in response to COVID-19 and progress on IP5 projects. The heads welcomed efforts of IP5 Industry to work actively with the five offices and to provide input for current and future IP5 initiatives.

Acknowledging the importance of further strengthening the IP5 cooperation and the needs of patent system users for predictability, quality and timeliness, they reiterated their joint commitment to “provide better services to users and the public, so as to enhance the role of intellectual property in stimulating innovation and promoting socio-economic development”. To this aim, they confirmed that the five offices, during this crucial period, will continue to:

? Develop initiatives and share best practices to spur and incentivize innovation, so as to support innovators and the international IP community in their contributions to the recovery of our economies and societies.

? Pursue IP5 initiatives to advance cooperation in new emerging technologies and artificial intelligence; enhance harmonization of practices and procedures; strengthen work-sharing efforts; improve the quality and efficiency of examination; and further enhance access to patent information.

António Campinos

President

European Patent Office

Kasutani Toshihide

Commissioner

Japan Patent Office

Park Wonjoo

Commissioner

Korean Intellectual Property Office

Shen Changyu

Commissioner

National Intellectual Property Administration of the People’s Republic of China

Andrei Iancu

Director

United States Patent and Trademark Office