WIPO
`
`E
`
`SCIT/ATR/PI/1999/KR
`
`WORLD INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY ORGANIZATION
`GENEVA
`
`STANDING COMMITTEE ON INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES
`
`ANNUAL TECHNICAL REPORT
`
`1999
`
`ON PATENT INFORMATION ACTIVITIES*
`
`submitted by the
`
`REPUBLIC OF KOREA
`
`An annual series of reports on the patent information activities
`of members of the Standing Committee on Information Technologies
`
`
`*
`– The term “patent” covers utility models and SPCs.
`– Information related to design patent activities reported by industrial property offices issuing
`design patents is included in the series of documents SCIT/ATR/ID.
`
`Petitioner's Exhibit 1036
`Page 001
`
`
`
`E
`
`SCIT/ATR/PI/1999/KR
`
`WORLD INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY ORGANIZATION
`GENEVA
`
`STANDING COMMITTEE ON INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES
`
`ANNUAL TECHNICAL REPORT
`
`1999
`
`ON PATENT INFORMATION ACTIVITIES*
`
`submitted by the
`
`REPUBLIC OF KOREA
`
`An annual series of reports on the patent information activities
`of members of the Standing Committee on Information Technologies
`
`
`*
`– The term “patent” covers utility models and SPCs.
`– Information related to design patent activities reported by industrial property offices issuing
`design patents is included in the series of documents SCIT/ATR/ID.
`
`Petitioner's Exhibit 1036
`Page 001
`
`
`
` Annual Technical Report on Patent and Utility Model
` Information Activities in 1999
`
`I. Evolution of registration activities
`
`A. Changes experienced in terms of application filings and grants with
`respect to the previous year
`
` (1) Patent
`
` Year
`Classification
`
` 1998
`
` 1999
`
`Ratio of
`Variation
`
` Filing
`
` 75,188
`
` 80,639
`
` 107.2%
`
` Registration
`
` 52,900
`
` 62,647
`
` 118.4%
`
`
`
` (2) Utility Model
`
` Year
`Classification
`
` Filing
`
` 1998
`
` 1999
`
`Ratio of
`Variation
`
` 28,896
`
` 30,650
`
` 106%
`
` Registration
`
` 25,717
`
` 32,916
`
` 128%
`
`B. Trends or areas experienced rapid changes with respect to the
` previous year
`
` None
`
`II. Matters concerning the generation, reproduction, distribution and
` use of primary and secondary sources of patent information:
`
`A. The Issue of Official Gazettes on CD-ROM
`
`(1) KIPO has published the following two types of Official Gazettes on
`CD-ROM since May 1998 and has distributed them inside and
`outside the country.
`
` - Registered Examined Patents and Utility Models Gazettes
`
`Petitioner's Exhibit 1036
`Page 002
`
`
`
` - Published Unexamined Patents and Utility Models Gazettes
`
`(2) Index CD-ROMs
`
`For a more effective search of information for Patent and Utility
`Models in each CD-ROM, KIPO has published Index CD-ROMs at the
`end of each year, since May 1998. From 2000, KIPO is planning to
`publish them twice a year.
`
`(3) ’99 Issue results
`
` Classification
`
`Rights
`1. Registered
`Examined
` Gazettes
`- Patent
`- Utility Model
`
`2. Published
`Unexamined
`Gazettes
`- Patent
`- Utility Model
`
` The number
` of Items
`
`The number
`of Published
` Times
`
` 108,537
` 76,448
` 32,089
`
` 130,,903
` 88,687
` 42,216
`
` 40
` 40
` -
`
` 58
` 58
` -
`
` Remarks
`
`Patent and
`Utility Model
`are contained
`in the same
`CD-ROM
`
`Patent and
`Utility Model
`are contained
`in the same
`CD-ROM
`
` Total
`
` 239,440
`
` B. Korean Patent Abstract on CD-ROM
`
` (1) Publication in 1999
`
` - Contents: Abstracts 11,200 cases (only domestic applicants)
` (Patent Publication number 97-266~00-130944)
` - Amounts: 300 copies (using MIMOSA)
`
` (2) Distribution
`
` - Domestic: 35 places, 125 copies
` (National Assembly Library, Korean Patent Attorney Association
` etc)
` - Abroad: 43 places, 75 copies (Germany, England etc)
`
` (3) Distribution Period: every January
`
`reclassifying and
`III. Matters concerning abstracting, classifying,
`indexing of technical information contained in patent documents:
`
`Petitioner's Exhibit 1036
`Page 003
`
`
`
` A. Classification and reclassification activities;
`
` KIPO is using IPC(International Patent Classification) as an official
` classification system. After the examiner dealing with classification
` makes a pre-classification, each examiner confirms classification into
` sub-group and re-classification is not conducted.
`
` B. Coordinate Indexing
`
` KIPO does not have its own classification indexing.
`
` C. Hybrid System Indexing
`
` KIPO mark Hybrid System Indexing on its patent-related official
` documents.
`
`IV. Search file establishment and upkeep:
`
` A. File building;
`
` In 1999, KIPO developed a New Patent (cid:160) Utility Model Search System,
` which allows a full text search on patent documents by using
` Internet-based technology. Based on this system, KIPO constructed a
` Database which contains information from National Published Patent
` Gazettes, Registered Patent Gazettes, JPO ’s Search Master and PAJ,
` EPO’s FPD and IFD, USPTO’ s Patent Descriptions, etc.
`
` B. Updating;
`
` These search files are updated periodically.
`
` C. Storage, including mass storage media;
`
` Texts (including SGML) used for search are stored on Disk and image
` data are stored on Optical Disk or CD. From 2000, all data will be
` stored on Disk for faster information retrieval.
`
` D. Documentation from other offices maintained and/or considered
` part of the available search file;
`
` Foreign data which are available through KIPO’ s Search System are
` as follows.
`
` Type
`
` Bibliographies
`
` Title of Data
` Search Master(JP/1975~), FPD(EPO/1974~),
` IFD(EPO/1974~)
`
` Abstracts
`
` Japanese Patents(JP/1975~1996), FPD(EPO/1974~)
`
`Petitioner's Exhibit 1036
`Page 004
`
`
`
` Full Texts
`
` Japanese Utility Models(JP/1975~),
` USPTO(USPTO/1975~), Espace-A(EPO/1978~),
` Espace-B(EPO/1990~), Espace-world(EPO/1978)
`
`V. Activities in the field of computerized and other mechanized search
`systems:
`
` A. In-house systems (online/offline);
`
` KIPO’s examiners can search data online by using the New Patent (cid:160)
` Utility Model Search System. Data which are not accessible through
` the System can be searched by CDs kept in the Reading Room.
`
` B. External databases;
`
` CA and IEEE’s Search Systems have already been incorporated into
` KIPO’s Search System.
`
` C. Administrative management systems;
`
` KIPO completed the KIPOnet system, an online electronic filing and
` administration system, in December 1998. The KIPOnet system
` provides totally automated IPR administration processes for
` acceptance, examination, registration, publication of official gazettes,
` trial and so on.
`
` D. Equipment used;
`
` - Main Computers: HP T-series 2 set, HP K-series 3 set
` - DBMS: Oracle
` - Search Engine: Verity
` - Web Server: Oracle Web Server
`
` E. Existing online thesauri;
`
` None
`
`VI. Administration of the industrial property office library and services
`available to the public:
`
`A. Collection of Industrial Property Information Resources in 1999
`
`(1) Patent specifications ;
`
`22 countries and 4 international organizations (AT, AU, BG, CA, CH,
`CN, DE, FR, GB, HU, ID, JP, LT, LV, PH, PL, RO, RU, TH, TR, US,
`
`Petitioner's Exhibit 1036
`Page 005
`
`
`
`AP, EP, OA, WO) on a mutual exchange basis
`
` (2) Abstracts and Index;
`
`3 countries and 2 international organizations (GE, JP, TW, EP, WO)
`on a mutual exchange and Derwent WPI by purchasing and JP
` Index by purchasing
`
`B. Preservation of Non-patent literature
`
` KIPO preserves 22,577 volumes (among them 16,947 related to
` science and technology and 5,630 related to others), 426 titles of
` periodicals, and 42 journals from research institutes which may be
` useful to examiners and trial examiners as reference material.
`
`C. Administration of the industrial property office library and services
` available to the public
`
`(1) Establishment of Local Patent Information Support Centers
`
`On 1 February 2000, KIPO reorganized 15 Local Patent Information
`Libraries into Local Patent Information Support Centers to publicize
`the IPR system and propagate IPR information on a national scale.
`The center provides overall Patent Information Services, e.g. guide,
`consultation, and publicity about IPR rights to the public.
`
`(2) KIPRIS Search Free of Charge
`
`On 1 January 2000, KIPO began to provide the Korean IPR
`Information Search Service (KIPRIS, http://www.kipris.or.kr) free of
`charge to the public. The public can be instructed how to use
`KIPRIS at KIPO ’s IP Library and Local Patent Information Support
`Center.
`
`VII. Matters concerning mutual exchange of patent documentation and
`information:
`
`A. On the basis of mutual exchange, KIPO provides official gazettes
`for other countries as follows.
`
` Type of document
`
` Country
`
`Bibliographic data
`of registered
`examined Patents
`and utility models
`
` 2 countries
` EP, GB
`
` Type of
` Material
`
` FD
`
`Petitioner's Exhibit 1036
`Page 006
`
`
`
`Korean Patent
`Abstracts
`
` Official Gazettes
`
` 40 countries and 3
` international organization
` AT, AU, BD, CA, CH, CN, CO,
` CZ, DE, DK, ES, FR, GB, GE,
` GR, HU, IN, IR, JP, KE, KG,
` LK, MX, MY, NL, NZ, PA, PE,
` PL, RO, RU, SE, SG, TH, TR,
` US, TW, VE, VN, ZA, AP, EP,
` W O
`
` - Published Unexamined
` Specification
`CN, DE, JP, RU, SG, US
`
` - Registered Examined
` Specification
` CN, DE, JP, RU, SG, TR, US,
` EP
`
` CO-ROM
`
` CD-ROM
`
` B. On the basis of mutual exchange, KIPO is given the following
` documents from other countries.
`
` Type of document
`
` Country
`
`Patent Specification
`And Official Gazettes
`
` Patent Abstracts
`
`22 countries and 4
`international organization
`AT, AU, BG, CA, CH, CN,
`CZ, DE, FR, GB, HU, ID,
`JP, LT, LV, PH, PL, RO,
` RU,TH, TR,US, AP, EP,
`OA, WO
`
`4 countries and 2
`international organization
` EG, GE, JP, TW, EP, WO
`
` Type of
` Material
`
` CD-ROM or
` Paper-form
` (ID, TH)
`
` CD-ROM or
` Paper-form
`
`Petitioner's Exhibit 1036
`Page 007
`
`
`
` Annual Reports
`
`33 countries and 3
`international organization
` AT, AU, BG, BY, CA, CN,
` CZ, DE, ES, FR, GB, GE,
` GR, HU, IL, JP, KE, KZ,
` LC, MK, MX, NL, NO, NZ,
` PH, PL, RO, SE, SI, TR,
` US, AP, EP, WO
`
` Paper-form
`
`VIII. Other relevant matters concerning education and training in, and
`promotion of,
`the use of patent
`information,
`including
`technical
`assistance to developing countries:
`
`A. Training Courses for National Participants.
`
` List of Courses
`
` Total (24 courses)
`
`Classes Participants
` (Persons)
` 54
` 3,839
`
`Petitioner's Exhibit 1036
`Page 008
`
`
`
`- Course for newly appointed
`examiners
`- Supplementary course for
`examiners
`- Course for trial examiners
`- Basic course on Industrial
`Property Rights
`- Basic course on Industrial
`Property Rights & its practices for
`other department officials
`- Course on IPR litigation
`- Course on PCT report writing
`- Course on IPR for middle
`management officials
`- Course for working-level officials
`in IPRs
`- Course on Japanese Speaking
`- Course for school principals and
`supervisors
`- Course for teachers in charge of
`invention club
`
` Sub-total (12 courses)
`
`- Introductory course on IPRs
`- Course for executive managers
`- Course for collective training of
`corporation employees
`- Course for professors in natural
`science and engineering
`- Course for university/college
`students
`
` 1
`
` 1
`
` 5
` 1
`
` 1
`
` 2
` 5
` 1
`
` 2
`
` 1
` 4
`
` 4
`
` 26
`
` 5
` 1
` 2
`
` 2
`
` 2
`
`Courses for
`Government
` Sector
`
`Courses for
` Private
` Sector
`
` 69
`
` 60
`
` 380
` 69
`
` 60
`
` 96
` 380
` 62
`
` 240
`
` 105
` 509
`
` 568
`
` 2,370
`
` 410
` 19
` 107
`
` 100
`
` 146
`
`Petitioner's Exhibit 1036
`Page 009
`
`
`
`- Course for patent attorneys-in
`apprenticeship
`- Advanced course on patent &
`utility model systems
`- Advanced course on trademark &
`industrial design systems
`- Course on foreign IPR systems
`- Course for electronic patent
`application exercise
`- Course on Biotechnology
`- Course on computer related
`patents
`
` 1
`
` 6
`
` 2
`
` 1
` 4
`
` 1
` 1
`
` 78
`
` 225
`
` 99
`
` 44
` 126
`
` 43
` 72
`
` Sub-total (12 courses)
`
` 28
`
` 1,469
`
`A. Training Courses for Foreign Participants
`
` Courses
`
`Duration
`
`Number of
`Participating
`countries
`
`Number of
`Participants
`
` Funding
`
` Total
`
` 33
`
` 100
`
`- Training course on
` industrial property
` system
`
`14 days
`(May.27-
`June 9,
`1999)
`
` 10
`
` 18
`
`- WIPO Asian
`Regional Seminar on
`The Promotion of the
`Use of Intellectual
`Property System
`By the Private
`Sector
`
` 3 days
` (Nov. 1-
` Nov. 3,
` 1999)
`
` 23
`
` 82
`
`Korean
`International
`Cooperation
`Agency
`(KOICA)
`
` WIPO(60%)
` and Korean
` Industrial
` Property
` Office
`(KIPO)(40%)
`
` C. International Cooperation and Perspectives
`
` IIPTI(International Intellectual Property Training Institute) has been
`
`Petitioner's Exhibit 1036
`Page 010
`
`
`
` undertaking every effort for consolidating cooperative activities with
` domestic and international training and research institutes, patent
` offices or professional societies like Max Planck Institute in Germany,
` the Franklin Pierce Law Center of the United States and the
` International Association for the Advancement of Teaching and
` Research in Intellectual Property(ATRIP).
` In addition, while IIPTI is vigorously seeking ways to serve as a
` center for consolidating a network for information exchange on
` education and training programs on IPRs, it is also planning to offer
` medium and long-term specialized training courses catering to the
` demand of post-graduates not only from Korea and but also from
` the Asia-Pacific region.
`
`IX. Other relevant matters
`
` A. Amendment of Quick Registration System for Utility Models
`(Effective as of July 1, 1999)
`
` Reflecting the recent accelerated pace of technological innovations,
` the need for earlier protection of utility models is becoming higher
` than ever before. In addition, utility models or small inventions now
` have a tendency to be commercialized within a very short time after
` the filing, and the life cycle of such products as incorporated utility
` models has been getting shorter and shorter. With this in mind, KIPO
` adopted the “ Quick Registration System (QRS)” for utility models.
` Under the QRS, utility models are registered promptly after formality
` and basic requirements examination without substantive examination,
` possibly about 3 months after the filing.
`
` B. Reduction of an average period of examination for Patent and
` Utility Models
`
` From 28.1 months in 1998 to 23.6 months in 1999
`
`Petitioner's Exhibit 1036
`Page 011
`
`
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