The EPO offers the best patent quality among the IP5 offices. This is the result of survey jointly conducted by Thomson Reuters and the Intellectual Asset Management (IAM) magazine among corporate and private practice IP professionals and published in the latest issue of the magazine.
According to the survey, 71% of corporate counsels thought that the quality of EPO-granted patents is \"excellent or very good\", with 56% of the private practice attorneys sharing this view. The Japan Patent Office came in second with the respective votes of 55% and 40%, followed by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (52% and 38% respectively), the Korean Intellectual Property Office (29%/21%) and the State Intellectual Property Office of the People\'s Republic of China (22%/20%).
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