CGPDTM and Director General of WIPO signed Cooperation agreement on 5th October 2017 at Geneva Switzerland to facilitate the exchange of data between these offices including Indian Patent documents, search and examination reports through WIPO CASE and WIPO Digital Access Services (DAS) to make priority documents available electronically. The Agreement covers cooperative activities for the improvement of IP business services at the Office, including projects for digitalization, data capture and data quality improvement, data exchange for the dissemination of IP information, provision of business systems by WIPO for digitization, document management, online search and any related systems or modules and creation of national and/or regional lP databases. The agreement will also facilitate India to become a despositing office for WIPO CASE thus enabling the office to make available the search and examination reports of Indian Patent applications. The agreement also envisages the regular data exchange between WIPO and IPO.