June 4, 2013

Kim YoungㅡminCommissioner

Korean Intellectual Property Office

The Creative Economy and IP

SiliconValley

R&D Labs University

VentureCapitals

IP-intensiveCorporations

ServiceProviders

Idea

R&D

Commercialization

Market

Silicon Valley – An Exemplary Virtuous Cycle

The core of the cycle : IP Ecosystem

Is IP a catalyst?

No. of patent filings per jobin Santa Clara County is double that of other areas.IP

Ecosystem

R & D

Market

Idea Commercial-ization

The Creative Economy and Korea

Optimizing Pendency

Improving Timeliness

Shortening examination pendency period

Meeting Different Needs

Customer-tailored examination system

Multi-track Examination

System

(Utilization ratio, 2012 )

12.3%

87.6%

0.1%

SuperAccelerated

Accelerated

Regular

Deferred

1 months

3‐5 months

10 months

0.1%

Shortening trial pendency period

Speedy Trials & Appeals

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2013 2014 2015 2016 2017

9 months

8 months

7 months

6 months

6 months

PCT – Timeliness

100% of ISRs will be delivered in time

PCT search requests and timeliness

44.0 16.3 10022.216.9

2009 2010 2011 2012 2nd Quarter of 2013

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Patent Quality Control

Reinforcing Quality Assurance

High-Quality Examination

High-QualityPatents

Paradigm Shift!

Expanding Examination Capacities

Seek measures to improve the patent classification system

Extend machine translation services to overseas documents

Enlarge interaction-basedoutsourcing of prior art searches

Increase the number of examiners on a continual basis

Collaboration with Other IPOs

81

157

272

490

610

1,250

No. of PPH requests

12

6

89

11

14KIPO’s PPH partners

Enter partnership with all the PPHmember states

PCT Quality Committee

Quarterly meeting Continual updating of examination standards

PCT – Quality Control

Deputy Commissioner

(Chair)

Director Generals

Directors

Examiners

ExaminationBureaus(4)

Examination Divisions(31)

PCT International Search and Preliminary Examination Division

PCT Policy QM Division

Quality Assurance QM Division

International Feedback QM Division

IT Resources QM Division

Human Resources QM Division

Administration & Communication Channel QM Division

PCT Quality Committee [6 divisions]

2-layer quality control system

ExaminersSenior

Examiners

Reviewers

Producing ISRs

Examination Divisions

Reviews

Feedback

Quality Assurance Division

1

2

PCT – Quality Control

GlobalizedPatent Laws and Systems

Revision of IP Laws for KOR–U.S. FTA (March 2012)

Extended patent duration due to delays in registration

Extended grace period for disclosure

Abolished patent cancellationdue to non-usage

Introduced confidentiality protection order in appeals procedures

Revision of the Korean Patent Act for Patent Law Treaty

Recovery

of a right

“A right is recovered when the

failure to meet the deadline has

resulted in the loss of the right”

Amendment completed

(Effective from July 2013)

English application

will be allowed

Under pre-announcement of

legislation(From March to May, 2013)

Simplifiedrequirements for acknowledging

filing date

Conclusion