Korea-Japan Heads of IP Office Meeting Resumed for the First Time in Six Years
June 16, 2023
June 01, 2023
The Korea-Japan Heads of IP Office Meeting was held on May 31, 2023 in Tokyo. The Commissioner Lee Insil of the Korean Intellectual Property Office (KIPO) met with Commissioner Hamano Koichi of the Japan Patent Office (JPO) to discuss current issues in the IP field and future cooperat...
KIPO Comissioner Holds Bilateral Meeting with WIPO Director General in Seoul
March 16, 2023
February 08, 2023
Bilateral Meeting Between the Heads of the Korean Intellectual Property Office and the World Intellectual Property Organization
□ The Korean Intellectual Property Office (KIPO) hosted bilateral talks with Director General Daren Tang of the World Intellectual Property Organizat...
KIPO-WIPO Roundtable with Youth and Women-led Innovative SMEs
February 10, 2023
□ The Korean Intellectual Property Office (KIPO) hosted a roundtable discussions with innovative SMEs led by Youth and Women on Friday, February 10, 2023 at D·CAMP in Seoul during the official visit of the head of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) to the Republic of Korea (ROK).
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KIPO finds that AI cannot be a legal ‘inventor’ under the Korean Patent Act
October 03, 2022
- The Korean Patent Act requires an “inventor” to be a “natural person.”-
□ The Korean Intellectual Property Office (Commissioner Dr. LEE Insil) denied the DABUS application*, a PCT application for an AI-generated invention, on the ground that an “inventor” had to be a natural person (28 Septembe...
The Republic of Korea ranked as the Best Innovator in Asia for the Second Consecutive Year
September 29, 2022
- No.1 in seven indicators of innovation capability and 6th worldwide in the 2022 Global Innovation Index -
The Korea Intellectual Property Office (KIPO) announced on September 28, 2022 that the Republic of Korea (ROK) ranked 1st as the most innovative country in Asia for the second consecutive ye...
Korean Applicants’ Grant of Patents to be Accelerated in France
September 01, 2022
(The KIPO-INPI Patent Prosecution Highway Program (“PPH”) has been in effect since 1 September 2022)
□ A bilateral agreement was reached with France to launch the KIPO-INPI* Patent Prosecution Highway Program (“PPH”)* on 1 September 2022. Korean enterprises may leverage the PPH to rapidly obtain I...
KIPO Spreads IP Development Knowhow to ASEAN Countries
August 28, 2022
- KIPO and KOICA implemented IP enhancement training for ASEAN countries (Aug. 29 - Sept. 8) -
□ The Korean Intellectual Property Office (KIPO; Commissioner Lee, In-sil) will hold an IP Capacity-building Training Course for ASEAN* countries, major trading partners of Korea from August 29 (Mon) to ...
Leading Dynamic Economic Growth by Ascending to Third Place in Global Patent Filing
August 18, 2022
Leading Dynamic Economic Growth by Ascending to Third Place in Global Patent Filing
□ Commissioner of Korean Intellectual Property Office (KIPO) announced on August 18 its new comprehensive policy plan for the area of intellectual property (IP), under the new government, called the “IP Policy Dire...
KIPO Commissioner Holds Bilateral Talks with 12 IP Offices and Delivers a Statement at the 63rd WIPO General Assembly
August 17, 2022
- A total of five collaborative MOUs signed -
- Urged to promote innovation and improve IP systems in order to overcome current crisis -
□ KIPO Commissioner Insil LEE participated in the 63rd Series of Meetings of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) General Assemblies (also called ...
World’s five largest patent offices step up co-operation on sustainability
June 10, 2022
□ The heads of the world’s five largest intellectual property offices met virtually today to discuss co-operation on enhancing the patent system to better support innovators globally. It was the 15th annual meeting of the five offices, known as the “IP5”, namely the European Patent Office (EPO), the...