KIPO Opens 5 Million Records of Intellectual Property Rights Changes

On the 12th, the Korean Intellectual Property Office (KIPO) announced that it will open 5 million records of legal status information on domestic patents and utility models through the Intellectual Property Patent Information Open Platform (Patent Information Utilization Service, KIPRISplus).

Legal status information refers to data recording all legal changes that occur throughout the entire process from the application to the expiration of intellectual property rights.

KIPO plans to process and disclose 5 million records of data collected from 1942 to the present in accordance with the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) international standards. The disclosed legal status information is expected to be utilized by companies and research institutions for systematic management of patents and proactive response to patent disputes.

So far, KIPO has opened various data to promote the utilization of intellectual property by the private sector. This year, it opened 7 types of data including rights holder change information, and next year, it plans to sequentially disclose 7 types of patent data for artificial intelligence training, which are in high demand, and one type of Korean translation of Japanese patent gazettes.

The Patent Information Utilization Service is a public data open platform operated by KIPO, providing 126 types of data products including intellectual property gazettes such as patents, utility models, trademarks, and designs published in 13 countries domestically and internationally, as well as patent administrative information, in the form of files or open APIs (Open Application Programming Interface).

Lee In-su, Director of the Industrial Property Information Bureau at KIPO, stated, “KIPO will continue to discover and provide customized information desired by the private sector so that intellectual property information can be actively utilized in the private sector.”

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