From 19 to 27 April, 2017, JIPA's Information Search Committee sent a 4-membered delegation led by Vice President Inoue (Sysmex) to the 73rd Patent Documentation Group (PDG) IMPACT Meeting held in Madrid, Spain, Hoffmann Eitle (a Spanish patent attorney's office), WIPO in Geneva, Switzerland, and Siemens, a company participating in Industry 4.0, in Munich, Germany.