The Intellectual Property Owners Association (IPO) will be co-sponsoring a conference entitled: "Trilateral Cooperation: Successes, Opportunities, and Challenges" on November 8, 2007 in Washington, D.C.  The conference, which is
being held in conjunction with the 25th Annual Meeting of the Trilateral Patent Offices (U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, Japan Patent Office, and European Patent Office), will seek to foster and expand international collaboration and address the challenges associated with increased use of world patent systems.  The conference will cover the following topics:

• The Business Imperative for Close Trilateral Cooperation in a Global Economy
• Patent Office Insights on the Trilateral Process . . . Past Successes and Future Challenges
• Perspectives of Owners and Advocates on Trilateral Cooperation

Conference speakers will include Jon Dudas, Under Secretary of Commerce for IP and Director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office; Masahiro Koezuka, Commissioner of the Japan Patent Office; and Alison Brimelow, President of the
European Patent Office.  The program for the conference can be found here.

The registration fee for the conference is $50.  Those interested in registering can do so here.