SEOUL, Aug. 24 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s deficit in the trade of intellectual property rights narrowed from a year earlier in the first quarter on the back of a sharp cut in shortfalls from industrial property rights, data showed Wednesday. In the January-March period, South Korea posted a trade deficit of US$780 million in [...]
SEOUL, July 14 (Yonhap) — South Korea’s tech giant Samsung Electronics has won a patent for analyzing body fat through smartphones, an intellectual property organization said Tuesday, which may mark another leap forward in enhancing health care-related features on smart devices. Under the title “Method and apparatus for measuring body fat using a mobile device,” the [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 30 (Korea Bizwire) – Intellectual property products (IPPs), which span research and development (R&D) as well as cultural entertainment, are playing a bigger role in the growth of Asia’s fourth-largest economy than during the 1970s, data showed on December 29. The net stock value of IPPs, which accounted for 2 percent of the country’s [...]
SEOUL, Nov.27 (Korea Bizwire) – A photo posted on an online discussion forum ended up forfeitinga patent. The cane-shaped ice cream sold in Seoul’s tourist-filled Insa-dong has been a popular item for the past few years. Korea’s Intellectual Property Trial and Appeal Board said on November 26 that the patent related to making the cane-cone ice cream was [...]
SEOUL, Korea, April 23, 2014 (Korea Bizwire) – A “valuation scheme” that can put a price tag on each piece of knowledge or technology will be established within the first half of 2014, according to a Munhwa Daily News report. The government of Korea is determined to come up with a system which estimates how [...]