KIPO

Message from the commissioner

Overview of 2009

Statistical overview of 2009

Highlights of 2009

World-class IP service

• Creation of robust IPRs through high-quality examinations
• Customer-friendly examinations and trials
  • Paradigm shift in patent examinations
  • The two-track trademark examination system
  • The three-track patent trial system
• Customer-oriented IP system

Expansion of global IP cooperation

• Greater international cooperation on examinations
• The IP5 framework of cooperation
• Support for developing and least developed countries
  • IP sharing campaign
  • IP information systems and training in developing countries

Open innovation and regional capacity building

• Campus Patent Strategy Universiade
• IP consultations for SMEs
• Capacity building for local governments
• Korea International Women's Invention Exposition

Toward an IP-friendly society

• Domestic IP protection system
• Overseas IP protection system
• IP activities for people who are socio-economically disadvantaged

Statistical data