Gwangyang-si, Operation of 'Invention Patent Hanmadang'

Experience the Entire Invention Patent Process for Elementary and Middle School Students, Opportunity to File a Patent Application

[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters, Reporter Heo Seon-sik] Gwangyang City in Jeollanam-do announced on the 24th that it will operate the ‘2021 Invention and Patent Festival to Foster Creativity’ for about 30 elementary and middle school students in the region until December this year.

This project aims for each participant to file and obtain one patent through systematic education, and is conducted by the Jeonnam Invention Education Research Association (Representative Yoo Kyung-jong) at the Gwangyang Education Support Office Invention Education Center inside Gwangyeong Elementary School.

The main content involves teaching students how to generate invention ideas, then having them think of original invention ideas through these methods, and experience the entire process of creating invention ideas including drawing drafting and electronic filing.

Outstanding ideas submitted through this process will be filed with the Korean Intellectual Property Office, and after examination, registered as intellectual property rights.

The city has been striving to provide patent filing opportunities to local students every year through the operation of the ‘Invention and Patent Festival to Foster Creativity,’ achieving results of 4 invention ideas filed in 2017, 5 each in 2018 and 2019, and 5 in 2020.

Lee Hwa-yeop, Director of the Regional Economy Division, said, “I hope the Invention and Patent Festival will become a place where any student with creativity and ideas can invent and concretize them as intellectual property rights, enhancing children’s potential,” and added, “We will continue to expand support for students’ excellent ideas, inventions, patent filings, and registrations.”

Meanwhile, the Gwangyang Invention Education Center, which organized this project, was selected as an Excellent Invention Education Center among 207 invention centers nationwide in the ‘2021 Korea Invention Education Institution’ evaluation conducted by the Korean Intellectual Property Office, and Park Sung-jin, a teacher at Gwangyeong Elementary School, was honored as an excellent invention education teacher.

Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters, Reporter Heo Seon-sik hss79@asiae.co.kr

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