03/01/2022 Various revisions to the Patent Act will take effect in April 2022. The revisions meaningful to foreign applicants include an extension of the...
14/01/2020 The Korean patent term extension (PTE) system is comparable to the provision of supplementary protection certificates (SPC) in Europe. Like SPCs, the…
23/06/2020 The Korean Intellectual Property Office (“KIPO”) has recently published amended guidelines concerning digital identification, according to which…
09/11/2020 This article compares the patent registration rates by technology field in South Korea with the other IP5 jurisdictions (ie, the United States...
01/08/2022 Unsurprisingly, given the fast-growing awareness of the metaverse and its implications for brand owners, the Korean IP Office (KIPO) has seen a...
