SEOUL, Jan. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — A new path has opened for Samsung Electronics Co. to produce an eye-catching laptop with a foldable display and keyboard. The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), a U.N.’s intellectual property agency, finally approved a patent named ‘multi-foldable electronic appliance’ registered in July last year by Samsung Electronics, according to [...]
DAEJEON, Oct. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — Virtual reality and augmented reality videos, as well as images expressed on websites, street walls and human bodies will be eligible to be registered as intellectual property (IP) in South Korea, the country’s patent office said Tuesday. The Korea Intellectual Property Office announced that digitally-produced designs with various purposes [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — It’s no secret that K-pop has grown into a multi-billion dollar industry with artists bred here becoming global household names supported by fans from all over the globe. Now, the agencies behind these singers are scaling up their businesses to make a name for themselves — either by bulking [...]
TEMECULA, Calif., Feb. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Nikkiso Cryogenic Industries’ Clean Energy & Industrial Gases Group (CE&IG), a subsidiary of Nikkiso Co., Ltd (Japan), announces their Pump Unit has acquired the intellectual property (IP) to manufacture and assemble electric-mechanical actuators (EMA) and the associated control panels. The high force EMA coupled to a cryogenic reciprocating [...]
BAKERSFIELD, Calif., Nov. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Today International Fruit Genetics (IFG) a California-based fruit breeding company has filed for patent / plant breeders’ rights / plant variety rights and trademark protection for many of its proprietary varieties in various jurisdictions. The company is the largest private breeder of table grapes in the world and licenses proprietary [...]
DAEJEON, Aug. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — The Patent Court of Korea, the first intellectual property (IP)-specialized court in Asia, plans to have its written rulings translated into English for the purpose of sharing with other countries. The International Intellectual Property Law Research Center of the Patent Court of Korea announced on Tuesday that it had [...]
BAKERSFIELD, Calif., May 5 (Korea Bizwire) — INTERNATIONAL FRUIT GENETICS, LLC (IFG) has taken steps to protect its intellectual property in China. The California-based company is the sole and unique proprietor of different table grape varieties, such as IFG Six (Sweet Sapphire ™), IFG Eleven (Sugar Crisp ™), IFG Sixteen (Sweet Favors ™), and IFG [...]
Amsterdam, the Netherlands, Nob. 25 (Korea Bizwire) – Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA), a global leader in health technology, today announced the successful outcome of several intellectual property (IP) infringement disputes with power toothbrush and brush head manufacturers and sellers following targeted legal actions in Europe. Financial details will not be disclosed. In the interest of consumers [...]
Rancho Santa Margarita, Calif., Oct. 29 (Korea Bizwire) – Stevia-based sweetener company SweeGen is strong in its unassailable position to defend and protect its production of Reb M by its highly titer-effective and cost-effective patent-protected process — Reb M produced via Reb D4. This statement is in response to the distorted claims about intellectual property made by PureCircle [...]
DAEJEON, Apr. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will participate in a project to establish an ecosystem for intellectual property led by the Saudi Arabian government aiming to achieve its national goal of ‘Vision 2030’. Park Won-joo, Korean Intellectual Property Office (KIPO) Commissioner, and Mohammed Al-Swailem, the CEO of Saudi Authority for Intellectual Property, met [...]