Patent Office Supports 'Customized Consulting' for Trade Secrets and Technology Protection

The Korean Intellectual Property Office (KIPO) is rolling up its sleeves to protect trade secrets and technologies of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), mid-sized companies, universities, and public research institutions.

KIPO announced on the 10th that it will conduct a unified recruitment of companies to participate in trade secret and technology protection consulting from the 11th to the 22nd of this month.

The consulting is categorized according to each company's level of trade secret and technology protection into ▲ Intellectual Property Convergence (IP-MIX) Technology Protection Strategy Consulting ▲ Basic Consulting on Trade Secret Management Systems ▲ Advanced Consulting on Trade Secret Management Systems.

The stepwise trade secret and technology protection consulting (three types) can be applied for at once through a unified announcement. This eliminates the inconvenience of having to apply separately at different times for each consulting type, providing integrated guidance on consulting support content and application methods, and offering convenience to applicant companies through a unified application form.

This year, the ‘National Key Technology Intellectual Property Protection Strategy Consulting’ will also be operated. This consulting is newly established to prevent technology leakage from SMEs, mid-sized companies, universities, and public research institutions that possess national strategic and core technologies. Recruitment of participants will be conducted through a separate announcement next month.

The consulting is supported by having technology protection experts inspect the company's trade secret management status, provide technology protection strategies utilizing intellectual property rights, and conduct follow-up management such as consulting implementation checks.

For more detailed information about the trade secret and technology protection consulting support project, please refer to the project announcement posted on the Trade Secret Protection Center website of the Korea Intellectual Property Protection Agency.

Jung In-sik, Director of the Industrial Property Protection Cooperation Bureau at KIPO, said, “Trade secrets can cause irreparable damage to companies with just one leak,” and added, “KIPO will continue to provide consulting support to prevent technology leakage damage in industry, academia, and research.”

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