KIPO-Kakao Collaborate on Developing AI-Based Patent Auto-Search System

[Asia Economy (Daejeon) Reporter Jeong Il-woong] On the 7th, the Korean Intellectual Property Office (KIPO) announced that it will sign a business agreement on the 8th to mutually cooperate with Kakao Enterprise in applying artificial intelligence (AI) technology to the field of similar patent search.

Similar patent search is a service provided by examiners that searches for patents similar to the new patent applications under examination and ranks them in order of similarity.

The agreement is a follow-up to the basic agreement signed by the two organizations in January last year for cooperation in AI technology.

KIPO and Kakao Enterprise will expand the use of AI technology into the patent search field based on their experience and trust built through previous cooperation in AI English-Korean machine translation.

KIPO plans to develop a world-class AI-based automatic patent search system through this cooperation agreement for developing ‘AI automatic patent search,’ aiming to bring innovation to patent examination.

Furthermore, once the ‘AI automatic search system’ with significantly improved search accuracy is developed, examiners will be able to reduce the time spent on ‘prior patent search’ and focus more on ‘patentability judgment,’ which is expected to bring revolutionary results to the quality of patent examination.

Kim Yong-seon, Deputy Commissioner of KIPO, said, “Recently, movements to apply AI technology in the patent field have been increasingly active, especially among the five advanced IP countries (IP5) including the United States and Japan. Through the expanded business agreement with Kakao Enterprise, KIPO will strive to create a successful public-private cooperation case and lead the world in patent digital innovation.”

This content was produced with the assistance of AI translation services.