KLP IP Firm

Flow chart of an accelerated examination According to Article 61 of the Patent Act, the Commissioner of KIPO may have a particular category of patent applications examined ahead of the others. KIPO's regulation concerning the procedure for handling requests for accelerated examination provides that applications eligible for such expedited examination are limited to the following categories: (1) in case it is considered that an invention has been commercially worked by a person who is not the applicant, after his application has been laid-open; (2) in case the application is one of the kinds of applications stipulated in the Presidential decree and regarded as urgent (i) it relates to goods for defense industry and processes for the preparation thereof, as defined in the Special Measures Act Relating to Defense Industry (ii) it relates to facilities for the prevention of environmental pollution or a process thereof (iii) it is directly involved in the promotion of export as evidenc...

-18 companies in cosmetics, 15 in pharmaceuticals, and 12 in baked products as well as clothing and shoes- KIPO analyzed the top 100 holders of trademark rights over the past five years. The analysis included 91 domestic companies, 7 foreign companies, and 2 domestic individuals. The results showed that while trademark registrations by domestic companies (77) largely increased compared to five years earlier, those by foreign companies (19) and domestic individuals (4) dropped. Of the registration by residents of foreign countries, the United States led the results followed by Japan, Germany, France and China. Except for France, whose main products were cosmetics, the rest mainly had products in electricity and electronics. An analysis of the top 100 holders of trademark rights for products for five years from 2006 to 2010, except for the service mark, showed that the rights holders with the most registered trademarks (over 1,000 trademarks) were Amore Pacific (3,608), followed by...