Overview of the Patent System in Korea

 South Korea

http://www.kipo.go.kr/kpo/user.tdf?a=user.english.main.BoardApp&c=1001

The Korean Intellectual Property Office (KIPO) is the patent office and intellectual property office of South Korea. In 2000, the name of the office was changed from “Korean Industrial Property Office” to “Korean Intellectual Property Office”.^[1] It is located in Daejeon Metropolitan City.^[2]

References

1.  KIPO web site, KIPO’s history. Consulted on January 20, 2008.
2.  KIPO web site, Contact Us. Consulted on January 20, 2008.

External links

• Korean Intellectual Property Office, in English
• Korea Intellectual Property Rights Information Service (KIPRIS), in English
  • Patent search database in KIPRIS, in English
  • K2E-PAT Interface in KIPRIS (wherein “K2E-PAT” stands for “Korean to English Automatic Machine Translation”, see European Patent Office, “Lost in translation? Get the right type of Korean patent translation for your needs”, Patent Information News, Issue 1, 2010, p. 4)
• Information about patent law in South Korea on the European Patent Office web site

Overview of the Patent System in Korea

History of the Korean patent system

What is a patent?

Purpose of the patent system

Requirements for acquiring patent rights

Effects and term of a patent right

Information on patent applications

First-to-file rule and first-to-invent rule

Inventions and devices

Patent examination system

Accelerated examination system

Deferred examination system

Divisional application

Converted application

Priority claim under treaty

Claim for domestic priority

Ex officio amendment

Request for reexamination (reexamination before a trial)

Pendency period

Korean Intellectual Property Office

http://www.kipris.or.kr/enghome/main.jsp

Patent Patent Search Websites; IP Related Organizations in Korea …

http://engpat.kipris.or.kr/engpat/searchLogina.do?next=MainSearch

Searching in databases – Korea

Tips & tricks for searching in databases
Easy, step-by-step instructions on how to use official Korean databases. Click on the links below to download the respective search guides.

Number search and document retrieval

• Retrieving Korean full text data from KIPRIS (PDF, 556 KB)
• NEW: “Patent of my concern” – free monitoring tool for Korean publications in KIPRIS (PDF, 823 KB)
  NEW: Searching Korean prior art using the ‘cross lingual retrieval’ function in KIPRIS (PDF, 234 KB)

English machine translations

• NEW: Retrieving free English machine translations in KIPRIS (PDF, 650 KB)

Legal status information

• Retrieving detailed English legal status information from KIPRIS (PDF, 246 KB)
• Retrieving information on fee payment from KIPRIS (PDF, 557 KB)
• Finding cited documents on KIPRIS (PDF, 457 KB)
• Retrieving patent term extension information from KIPRIS (PDF, 471 KB)
• Finding information on divisional applications in KIPRIS (PDF, 410 KB)
• Retrieving information on inventors, applicants and representatives in KIPRIS (PDF, 158 KB)
• NEW: “Super citations”: basic search tool for cited documents in KIPRIS (PDF, 447 KB)

Searching trade marks and designs

• Searching for trade mark information on KIPRIS (PDF, 531 KB)
• Searching for design information on KIPRIS (PDF, 515 KB)

Searching information on pharmaceutical patents

• Searching in the “green list” for linkage patents (PDF, 81 KB)