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KIPO opens about 5,000,000 cases of information on change of IP rights. (News Letter No. 544) |
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2025-01-16 |
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1. KIPO opens about 5,000,000 cases of information on change of IP rights.
-KIPO scheduled to sequentially open 7 types of AI learning data and Korean translations of Japanese patent publications.
According to KIPO, about 5,000,000 cases of legal status information of patents and utility models held in Korea are opened through a Korea intellectual property information use service (KIPRISplus) which is an IP patent information opening platform.
The legal status information to be opened at this time is the information recording legal changes which occurred during the entire process, from the filing of an application for an IP right to the extinguishment of the IP right. KIPO will provide the data from 1942 to present to be processed according to the international standards of WIPO.
Since companies and research institutes, etc. are able to do systematic management of patents and to preemptively respond to patent disputes by using legal status information, the legal status information to be opened at this time is expected to be an important resource to strengthen IP competitiveness.
KIPO has opened various data to promote private IP utilization. This year, KIPO opened 7 types including the information on changes in the rights holder. Next year, KIPO has a plan to sequentially open to the public 7 types of AI learning patent data in high demand and 1 type of Korean translations of Japanese patent publications.
The Korea intellectual property information use service (KIPRISplus), which is an open data platform operated by KIPO, opens, in the form of a file or an open application programming interface (API), a total of 126 types of data products, such as IP (patent, utility model, trademark and design) publications published in 13 countries at home and abroad and IP administration information, etc..
2. KIPO participated in an TM5 and ID5 annual meeting.
-IP5 (KIPO, USPTO, EPO, JPO and CNIPA)’s trademark and design working-level people met to jointly discuss for international harmony in the legal system and in the examination practice.
-KIPO lead collaborative tasks and built a tight cooperation system with major advanced countries.
-Global cooperation was proactively promoted in line with the changing environments, such as AI, metaverse, etc.
KIPO attended the 2024 TM5 and ID5 annual meeting held in Hakone, Japan. In this meeting hosted by JPO, IP5 (KIPO, USPTO, EPO, JPO and CNIPA) cooperative tasks in the trademark and design fields were discussed and the information of application trends and legal system amendments by each IP5 was exchanged. This meeting has been held every year for the establishment of an advanced legal system and user communications, and it will be held in US.
【 TM5•ID5 outline 】
• IT5 is a meeting group of the world’s five largest trademark offices that work together to exchange information of trademark systems and to cooperate. Since it started in 2012, its meeting was held every year, and South Korea successfully held the meeting as the host country in 2012, 2018 and 2023.
• ID5 is a cooperative group of the world’s five largest offices in the industrial design field and it was launched in December 2015. South Korea successfully held the meeting as the host country in 2018 and 2023.
In the TM5 meeting, KIPO presented 3 tasks led by South Korea, among 15 cooperation tasks in the trademark field.
Notably, the cooperation task of ‘raising awareness of trademark infringement’, which has been led by KIPO aims to create a worldwide fair trademark ecosystem by collecting and analyzing each country’s trademark infringement prevention system and major judicial precedent to improve the awareness of a trademark right and to prepare a substantial infringement prevention plan. In addition, KIPO led the cooperation task of ‘trademarks in virtual space’ to share the virtual goods-and virtual services-related application trends and the relevant examination practices among the member countries of TM5 and to improve them.
In the ID5 annual meeting, KIPO successfully completed the 2 cooperation tasks, ‘protection of metaverse digital designs’ and ‘Hague Workshop’, among 10 cooperation tasks in the design field.
Specifically, the ‘Hague Workshop’, which was a cooperation task suggested by KIPO, compared the results of the case(s) which were jointly examined in the 5 Offices (KIPO, USPTO, EPO, JPO and CNIPA). In the design field, each country’s system is considerably different but the international harmony through a workshop was pursued to make it easier for an applicant to secure overseas rights.
3. KIPO held an ‘IP Open Innovation Conference’.
-IP open innovation strategies were at one place!
-Strategies to promote IP-based innovation technology commercialization were discussed.
KIPO held an ‘IP Open Innovation Conference 2024’.
This conference was arranged to secure, through the open innovation, a Korean company’s competitiveness and to foster an IP-based small but strong company in the high-tech field. The attendees, at this conference, included IP experts by field, startups CEO, people involved in investment institutions, to share IP commercialization strategies by introducing innovative technology and using IP information, etc. and the relevant excellent cases.
The IP Open Innovation Conference consisted of a common session and an individual session, to conduct in-depth discussions on each topic. In the common session, the presentations were taken by Prof. Ji-hoon JEONG, who is a convergence technology expert, Jong-yoon KIM, a CEO of Yanolja which is a unicorn company, and Jin-seok KIM, CEO of Hurum and president of Hi-Seoul Biz Company Association. They delivered lectures on ‘current status and future of an open innovation company from Silicon Valley trends’, ‘how AI innovation drives unicorn startups’, and ‘startup success stories through IP transaction and commercialization’, respectively and shared the open innovation strategies.
The individual session included ① IP product innovation, ② IP startup, and ③ investment attraction briefing session (IR: investor relations). In the ① IP product innovation session, Prof. Kun NA of Hongik University, Dae-wu SIN, director of Korea GPT Association, and Kwang-myung OH, CEO of 2PM Lab shared product innovation measures using open innovation. In the ② IP startup session, Young-ha KOH, chairman of Korea Business Angels Association, Hae-won CHOI, CEO of Momentum Makers, and Sung-hoon KIM, lawyer of Mission Law Firm delivered lectures on overseas expansion strategies for startups. In the ③ investment attraction briefing session (IR: investor relations), the grand prize and excellence prize were decided based on the IR presentation of 6 companies.
4. In collaboration with the Ministry of Science and ICT, KIPO starts protection of K-trademarks (brands),
-Damages are frequent due to the distribution of K-brand counterfeit products abusing a domain name taken over without permission.
-Korea Intellectual Property Protection Agency (KIPPA) and Korea Internet & Security Agency (KISA) signed a new business agreement (November 26).
Korea Intellectual Property Protection Agency (KIPPA) under KIPO and Korea Internet & Security Agency (KISA) under the Ministry of Science and ICT signed a ‘business agreement to protect an IP right of a K-brand company.
This business agreement was carried forward as part of active administration to establish a cooperation system to respond to a domain dispute, for KIPPA and KISA to protect a K-trademark (brand) small or medium company’s IP right and to support its smooth overseas expansion.
The major content of this agreement included △ establishing a K-brand company support system in an internet address dispute regarding a K-trademark (brand), △ holding training and seminars to prevent an internet address dispute or to respond to it, and △ cooperating to rapidly solve a stolen internet domain-related dispute by sharing the information of an internet address dispute, etc.
Through this business agreement, KIPPA will provide consulting of a K-trademark (brand)-related domain dispute and continue to check whether a Korean company’s trademark is occupied without permission. KISA will guide Korean small and medium companies to the domain dispute mediation system and promote a rapid dispute resolution through a dispute mediation committee. Further, the two will jointly promote online and offline campaigns such that when obtaining trademarks, Korean companies can register the same domains.
5. KIPO held a ‘seminar of best practices in a project to support a response to an overseas IP dispute’.
-The seminar was to introduce the project performance in 2024 and the next year’s support project operation direction and to share the best cases responding to disputes.
KIPO held a seminar of best practices in a project to support a response to an overseas IP dispute.
The seminar was prepared for the people of companies expanding (or planning to expand) overseas and IP professional organization representative, etc., to strengthen companies’ dispute response capabilities and to support them in pioneering overseas markets by sharing cases of companies successively overcoming overseas IP dispute risks.
In the seminar, KIPO introduced ① the 2024 performance of the project to support responses to overseas IP (patent and K-brands) disputes and the next year’s operation directions and it shared ② the best cases responding to the IP disputes.
A counseling booth prepared in the event venue was also operated to proceed with consultation on overseas IP disputes. In the event spot, people of companies expanding or planning to expand overseas felt free to ask any questions to the experts in IP field, such as patent attorneys, etc., and were provided with information on the related support projects.
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