1. KIPO agrees on UAE consulting for a patent administration model

The KIPO held a high-level meeting with the UAE Economy Department and agreed to provide strategic consulting for establishing a patent examination organization, designing patent-related laws and systems, cultivating examination manpower, and formulating strategies for creating and utilizing intellectual property rights. At the meeting with Choi Dong-gyou, commissioner of the KIPO, and Mohammed Al-Shehhi, vice minister of the UAE Ministry of Economy, as chief delegates, they signed a memorandum with such content and agreed that the UAE government would pay for the expenses necessary for consulting.  The Republic of Korea will send experts to the UAE to assist the country in the development and management of patent administration. The UAE does not currently have its own patent examination system, therefore patent examination work is outsourced to patent offices of foreign countries such as Korea.

2. Korea, China and Japan will cooperate for education and training on intellectual property

The International Intellectual Property Training Institute of the KIPO will cooperate with China's China Intellectual Property Training Center (CIPTC) and Japan's National Center for Industrial Property Information and Training (INPIT) to hold a Korea-China-Japan intellectual property training agency chiefs meeting and seminar. The training institutes for intellectual property of the three countries will share task know-how and discuss cooperation schemes for development of intellectual property training, playing a role as an arena for exchanges between countries. At the meeting, there will be presentations by and discussion between patent experts of the countries on the sharing of information on the intellectual property training information of each country, a scheme for inviting excellent lecturers to hold lectures, a scheme for sending examiner trainees to other countries, and the current operating state and developmental orientation of not only the KIPRIS, a Korean patent data base system, but also the patent data bases of China and Japan (J-PlatPat).

3. Patent Court releases Foreign Language (English and Japanese) Trial Manual to be introduced in International Trial Section

As a first step for an introduction into the International Trial Section of the Patent Court, a Foreign Language (English and Japanese) Trial Manual was released on October 4^th. And, in order to implement predictable and sophisticated judicial procedures that can lead International standards, there has been an effort to make and release a trial manual for judicial procedures. This will help ensure that foreigners can easily understand and predict the trial procedures of the Patent Court through the Trial Manual, and that the international reliability of the Patent Court can be enhanced by utilization of sophisticated procedures that lead global standards. In the Patent Court, foreigner-concerned cases account for 29.7% of the total (529 of 1784 cases handled in 2014 and 2015), of which American and Japanese-concerned cases account for 49.7% (263 cases).

4. Small and medium businesses also will have their core technology protected by 'Original Verification Service'

The Small and Medium Business Administration announced on October 12^th that it will start an original verification service which can protect the core technology of an enterprise, proposals in the form of electronic files, and individual ideas. The original verification service is a system currently being operated by the KIPO. This is a service whereby it is possible to verify the existence and owner of relevant business secrets and the time of possession by registering with the original verification agency only the electronic fingerprint of the business secret (electronic document) owned by an enterprise or individual.  The Foundation for Cooperation between Large Corporations and Small and Medium Enterprises, an agency dedicated to protection of small and medium business technology, was designated last July by the KIPO as an original verification service agency, whereupon it became possible that small and medium businesses can also make use of this service, which can be utilized relatively easily and at lower cost (10,000 won per case) compared with the technical data bailment system.