The EPO's 7th annual "East meets West in Vienna" forum on patent information from Asia was held on 23 and 24 April 2009. This year, the hot topics included machine translation for Asian documents, searching traditional knowledge, recent law changes and classification matters. You can read more about the event in the EPO's "Patent Information News", issue 2/2009, which will be available soon at http://www.epo.org/about-us/publications/patent-information/news/2009.html 

How relevant was the forum for your daily work? Which topics would you like to have discussed next year? Join this discussion thread to share your impressions of "East meets West 2009" or make suggestions for next year's event.