Monday IPDate November 3, 2025

Collaborating for impact: EPO and IP Australia reach new milestones​

Building on the success of their annual bilateral meeting in July, the EPO and IP Australia have further strengthened their co-operation. Only three months after the heads meeting in Munich, the two offices announced plans to launch a pilot programme under the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) on 1 March 2026. ​The pilot will allow Australian applicants to designate the EPO as their International Searching Authority and International Preliminary Examining Authority (ISA/IPEA) for PCT applications.

> Collaborating for impact: EPO and IP Australia reach new milestones​

K-Patents Go Global: Patent Filing by Koreans Increase Both Domestically and Abroad in the First Half of 2025

Despite continued global economic uncertainty, the number of patent applications filed by Korean applicants has increased in both domestic and foreign jurisdictions during the first half of 2025. According to data jointly released by the Ministry of Intellectual Property (MOIP) and the Korea Institute of Intellectual Property (KIIP), Korean nationals have filed more patent applications compared to the same period last year in Korea and in the world’s five leading intellectual property offices (IP5).

> K-Patents Go Global: Patent Filing by Koreans Increase Both Domestically and Abroad in the First Half of 2025