SEOUL, Nov. 25 (Korea Bizwire) – When you’re depressed, your smartphone detects your feelings and emotions, and plays rhythmic music to help change your mood. This might sound a little bit strange or futuristic, but research in emotion sensing technology is increasing rapidly. According to the Korean Intellectual Property Office (KIPO), the number of patent [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 4 (Korea Bizwire) – As the voice of smokers becomes louder for their smoking rights in Korea, the number of patent applications related to smoking rooms which can be a compromising alternative for both smokers and non-smokers is skyrocketing, according to the Korean Intellectual Property Office (KIPO). The KIPO announced that the number of patent [...]
SEOUL, July 29 (Korea Bizwire) — Dental implants became simple and accurate thanks to customized implant system grafting state-of-the-art IT to dental clinics. The customized dental implant system enables optimized implant procedures for various people with different oral structures by scanning them and making their 3D images in the computer. Dentists, as they practice operating virtually [...]
SEOUL, July 14 (Korea Bizwire) – Car tuning is today one of the most promising sub-markets in the whole automobile industry. As tuning can be a way to personalize the characteristics of a vehicle to the owner’s preference, it reflects the motorist’s consumption trend best and thus is considered a high-growth market in the near [...]
SEOUL, June 20 (Korea Bizwire) – From now on, mobile applications and computer software technologies can be officially protected by patent. The Korean Intellectual Property Office announced on June 18 that it has revised patent standards and will begin granting patents for “Computer Program” claims. A claim is the extent of the protection conferred by [...]
SEOUL, June 3 (Korea Bizwire) – The Korean Intellectual Property Office (KIPO), in collaboration with universities, will create a 10-billion-won fund to give support to start-up companies that take advantage of patents held by the universities. To this end, the patent office will chip in 80 percent of the fund, or 8 billion won. University-based [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Mar 26 (Korea Bizwire) – The Korean Intellectual Property Office has announced the “Development of National Patent Strategy Blueprint Project (the Blueprint Project)” will be carried out in five different industries this year: the food, agriculture, forestry and fisheries industry, the parts industry, the LED lights industry, the renewable energy industry and the [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Jan 16 (Korea Bizwire) - The Korean Intellectual Property Office said on January 15 that its DesignMap, a portal on design copyrights, has seen an increase of 36 percent in visitor numbers to 1.9 million last year. Comparing to 2009, the first year of the service, this is a 582-percent growth. DesignMap, a website created [...]