This past Friday, Jay Erstling, Director of the Office of the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), spoke at a lunch-time gathering here in Portland, Oregon. The gathering had three sponsors — Lewis & Clark Law School’s i.p. program, the Oregon State Bar’s I.P. Section, and the Oregon Patent Law Association.

At the talk, Mr. Erstling described both the growth in PCT activity and a number of new policies and procedures in the PCT system. A pdf version of the slides Mr. Erstling used during his presentation is here.