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YOUNG-MIN KIM

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BEN (BEYONG-HO) YUU

Managing Partner


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Partner


CHANG-HAK SHIN

Sr. Patent Attorney


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Regional Expert (English)


LENA SPAFFORD

Regional Expert (English)


JAE-HWAN SIM

Partner


JEONG-SEOK LEE

Sr. Patent Attorney


JI-WOONG KIM

Partner


JONATHAN MASTERS

Trademark Attorney (AU)


KWEI-RYE HA

Partner


MIN-KYEONG SHIN

Sr. Patent Attorney


BO-RA KIM

Patent Attorney


JAE-WOO BYEON

Sr. Patent Attorney


KWAN-JU PARK

Sr. Patent Attorney


SEO-WU LEE

Patent Attorney


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Sr. Patent Attorney


NA-RA YI

Patent Attorney


JUSTIN HWANG

Sr. Patent Attorney


HAI-HUA ZHANG

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Regional Expert (Japanese)


SANG-HUN JUNG

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SEO-YOUNG LEE

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Practice Notes


STATISTICS ON PATENT APPLICATIONS IN KOREA RELATED TO FOURTH INDUSTRIAL
REVOLUTION INVENTIONS

The Korean Intellectual Property Office (hereinafter, KIPO) has released
statistical data on the trends of patent applications in Korea related to
inventions associated with the Fourth Industrial Revolution (hereinafter, 4IR),
such as artificial intelligence. This data was prepared by the Artificial
Intelligence & Big Data Examination Division of KIPO and was last updated on 23
May 2024  ▒   Fourth Industrial Revolution related Inventions The KIPO
classifies the 4IR related inventions into eight major technology fields:
Artificial Intelligence (AI), Big Data, Internet of Things (IoT), Digital Health
Care, Bio Markers, Intelligent Robots, Autonomous Driving, and 3D Printing.
Patent applications filed in the 8 major technologies fields have continuously
increased (7,057 appl. in 2013 → 24,341 appl. in 2022).                        
           Especially, patent applications filed in the AI field have accounted
for the largest (36.8%) among the ones filed in the 4IR technologies fields in
2022. The patent applications filed in the AI field sharply increased by 39.6 %
on annual average basis (444 appl. in 2013 → 8,960 appl. 2022).                
                                                        ▒  Korean Patent
Applications Trend in the Digital Convergence Field The KIPO considers
inventions that combine two of the eight major technology fields related to the
4IR as belonging to the Digital Convergence Field. Specifically, combinations
such as Artificial Intelligence (AI) + Digital Health Care, AI + Big Data,
Internet of Things (IoT) + Big Data, Digital Health Care + IoT, AI + IoT, AI +
Autonomous Driving, Digital Health Care + Intelligent Robot, Digital Health Care
+ Big Data, AI + Intelligent Robot, Autonomous Driving + Intelligent Robot, and
IoT + Autonomous Driving are categorized under the Digital Convergence Field.
Patent applications filed in the digital convergence field increased by
twentyfold between 2013 and 2022 (128 appl. in 2013 → 2,294 appl. in 2022).    
                            In particular, the trend of AI technology converging
with other technologies has become especially pronounced. Among the 11
convergence technologies, those combined with AI have all shown an average
annual growth rate of over 40%. Over the past 10 years, patent applications
involving AI convergence have grown by a factor of 41.                          
                                                           

2024-10-31
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KIPO ANNOUNCES 2025 BUDGET: AI-BASED EXAMINATION SUPPORT SERVICE ON THE HORIZON

The Korean Intellectual Property Office (KIPO) has announced its proposed budget
for 2025, revealing the office’s key investment priorities for the coming year.
Among other objectives, the budget proposal highlights KIPO’s continuing efforts
to effectively integrate artificial intelligence (AI) into its work processes.
 ▒  Key Focus Areas for 2025 The total budget of KRW 705.8 billion (approx. USD
511 million) represents a 0.6% increase from the previous year, and is set to be
finalized by the National Assembly in December. Through the proposed budget,
KIPO outlines four key focus areas for 2025: Leveraging patent big data:
Expanding the use of global patent big data to better support national R&D
planning, advance the development of emerging technologies, and prevent
technology leaks. IP financing for startups and SMEs: Increasing support for
IP-based financing options to help small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and
startups leverage their IP for growth. Strengthening export companies’ IP
dispute resolution: Enhancing the capacity of Korean export companies to prevent
and resolve IP disputes in other countries, and expanding efforts to curb the
distribution of counterfeit goods online by harnessing AI. Developing a
high-quality, AI-based examination support service: Building on KIPO’s
partnership with LG AI Research to develop improved AI-based search capabilities
for providing faster and more efficient examination services. The latter AI
project is in keeping with KIPO’s ’23-’27 roadmap for AI technology
implementation, adopted in early 2023, which maps out the office’s ambition of
“building the world’s best AI-based examination and trial system”.  ▒ 
Partnership with LG AI Research KIPO initially partnered with LG AI Research in
2023, with the goal of developing a ‘patent expert AI’ for use in prior art
searches, classification, and summarization of patent documents. This lead to
the development later that year of what is, according to KIPO, the world’s first
hyperscale AI language model tailored specifically for patent administration.
The model was trained with 1.78 terabytes of patent-related data provided by
KIPO—including patent gazette publications, office actions, machine-translated
documents, CPC classifications, machine reading comprehension information, and
collections of consultation case studies—based on LG AI Research’s hyperscale
multimodal AI, EXAONE. Designed with 8.8 billion parameters, tailored to the
environment and usage needs of KIPO, the model has already been successful in
handling tasks such as patent document summarization, translation, and
classification.  ▒ Applying the new model 2025 will see the beginning in earnest
of the next phase of the model’s development and application: building KIPO’s
AI-based examination support system, through which the office ultimately plans
to introduce new AI-based prior art search and trademark/design image search
capabilities into its examination processes. Given the increasing volume and
complexity of patent applications, prior art search in particular is an area
that stands to benefit greatly from the use of AI tools. As the first such tool
based on an AI language model tailored for patent administration tasks, and
boosted by the new investment, the model developed by KIPO and LG AI Research
promises a step forward in this regard. Although 2025 is only the beginning of
the next phase, patent applicants in Korea, as well as PCT applicants using KIPO
as International Searching Authority, can look forward to more efficient,
speedier, and more reliable services in the near future. Written by Simon Voget

2024-10-28
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NAM IP GROUP ATTORNEYS HAVE BEEN NAMED AS RISING STAR IN IP STARS!

NAM IP Group attorneys have been named as Rising Star in IP STARS!
Congratulations once again to those selected. We have high expectations for your
future achievements and offer our full support and encouragement

2024-10-25
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Practice Notes


TACKLING THE INCREASING DELAY IN KOREAN TRADEMARK EXAMINATION

As anyone with recent experience of filing trademarks in Korea will already be
painfully aware, the examination timeframe has been increasing significantly. In
a recent paper published by the Korean Intellectual Property Office (KIPO) and
Korea Institute of Intellectual Property (KIIP) (“상표심사처리기간 지연의 경제적 피해액 추정”,
August 2024), this topic is discussed in relation to the economic impact caused
by trademark examination delays. The majority of data in this article is taken
from said paper. For business owners, delays in achieving trademark registration
can have severe implications. With Korea being a first-to-file jurisdiction with
rights largely based on registered trademarks, there is an inherent risk in
using a trademark prior to registration. However, delaying product launches
while waiting for examination results leads to lost potential sale
opportunities, and if a trademark has to be changed due to a conflict this can
also result in costs wasted on product development, marketing etc. Aside from
these direct impacts, there are also knock-on effects such as job losses and
reduced production while companies delay launching projects, as well as a more
general reluctance to innovate and invest in new ventures due to brand
uncertainty.  ▒  Causes for the increasing delay The annual number of trademark
applications filed and average examination time (i.e. time between filing and
examination result) over the last decade is shown in the below table, with the
year-on-year percentage difference in brackets: (* Figures for 2024/2025 are
estimates) While the number of trademark applications has steadily grown, the
increase in examination time is disproportionate. Comparing the 2014 figures
with estimated 2024 figures, the number of applications is expected to increase
by 69.39% over the 10-year period, while the examination speed is projected to
be 200% slower. The increasing delay is primarily attributable to two factors:
(1) Lack of manpower The increase in the number of trademark applications was
not matched by a corresponding increase in examiners, resulting in a larger
caseload per examiner and bottlenecks in examination. The number of trademark
examiners increased from 146 in 2019 (~1,500 cases per examiner), to 149 in 2021
(~1,900 cases per examiner), to 175 in 2024 (~1,550 cases per examiner).
(Source: Seoul Economic Daily) While the number of examiners has increased,
there is still a significant backlog of cases awaiting examination. (2) Increase
in requests for accelerated examination A surge in accelerated examination
requests diverted resources from general examination. The number of requests
grew astronomically from 6,186 in 2018 to 46,744 in 2023 — a more than
seven-fold increase over a five-year period. This is mainly attributable to
requests for accelerated examination being accepted based on a senior trademark
search report prepared by a KIPO-designated agency starting from July 2019. This
greatly reduced the burden in requesting accelerated examination and made it
easier for applicants to get their applications examined quickly, even if they
had no clear intention to start using the mark.  ▒  What can be done? The paper
proposes a number of measures aimed at improving the situation: (1) Increasing
the number of examiners (2) Utilizing AI to strengthen pre-examination This
could include easing examiner burden by implementing an AI-powered similar
trademark search engine for use during examination, and improving applicant
confidence by developing a pre-filing screening tool that can estimate the
chances of a trademark achieving registration. (3) Improving applicant
communication This includes increasing awareness of the designated
goods/services list that is updated annually (applications only covering
pre-approved goods/services are afforded lower official fees and are not likely
to be refused based on vague/broad descriptions or misclassification), and
alerting applicants of the estimated timeframe for examination. (4) Restricting
accelerated examination In response to the surge in requests, KIPO has already
stopped accepting accelerated examination requests based on trademark search
reports as of January 2024. In order to request accelerated examination,
applicants must now rely on other grounds such as (i) they are already using the
mark or have evidence showing imminent use is planned; (ii) another party is
already using the mark for identical/similar goods; (iii) the applicant received
a warning letter concerning their application from another party with senior
rights, etc. (5) Shortening the opposition period Even if an application passes
examination (i.e. the examiner finds no grounds to provisionally refuse the
application), it is still subject to a two-month “publication period” during
which any party can file an opposition with the intention of preventing the
application from achieving registration. It has been suggested that this period
be reduced to 30 days, which would allow non-opposed applications to be
registered faster. (In return, opponents may be afforded longer time extensions
for preparing their opposition.)  ▒  Final thoughts As discussed, increasing
delays in trademark examination can have significant economic impacts, hindering
business growth and innovation. With KIPO intimately aware of this situation, we
are hopeful that changes will be forthcoming to improve efficiency and bring
about a return to a more predictable and business-friendly trademark examination
system.   Written by Jonathan MASTERS

2024-10-18
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LET’S MEET AT KINPA CONFERENCE 2024!

We are pleased to announce that NAM IP Group will be attending the KINPA
Conference 2024 as a “Silver Sponsor”. As the lanyard sponsor we will be with
you at all times, and with five NAM IP attorneys in attendance, you should not
have trouble finding us. We look forward to meeting and getting to know as many
attendees as possible.       

2024-10-15
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Practice Notes


PROPOSED LAW REVISION TO TACKLE IMPORTATION OF ‘PERSONAL USE’ COUNTERFEIT GOODS

A proposed amendment to the Korean Trademark Act has been announced which would
address the issue of counterfeit goods being shipped into the country by foreign
sellers. Currently, there is ambiguity in determining whether such shipments
constitute trademark infringement, making it difficult for Customs authorities
to block them under the provisions of the Customs Act dealing with intellectual
property violations.      ▒  What is changing?   The revision introduces a new
clause that defines the act of a foreign seller shipping goods marked with a
trademark into Korea as a form of "trademark use". In doing so, "supply" by
foreign sellers will be separated from the act of "import", typically carried
out by domestic buyers, and this distinction will allow authorities to treat
such imports as trademark infringement, even if the seller is overseas and the
item is for personal use.       ▒  What is the expected effect?   With Customs
authorities having a clear legal basis to seize and block counterfeit goods from
entering the country, even if they are intended for personal use, border
enforcement is expected to be considerably strengthened with enhanced protection
for domestic trademark holders against overseas counterfeiters. At the same
time, individual consumers importing goods for personal, non-commercial use will
not be punished.       ▒  What is the timeline?    The public have been invited
to submit opinions on the proposed changes by 14 October. In the absence of any
unexpected developments, the amendments are expected to be promulgated before
the end of the year and would take effect immediately.       Written by Jonathan
MASTERS and Sang-eun SHIN

2024-09-12
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