As of January 2014, a comprehensive IP5 Patent Prosecution Highway Pilot Programme of the European Patent Office (EPO), the Japanese Patent Office (JPO), the Korean Intellectual Property Office (KIPO), the State Intellectual Property Office of the People’s Republic of China (SIPO) and the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) shall be initiated. The goal is to enable obtaining patents faster and more efficiently on the basis of PCT as well as national work products.