SEOUL, Sept. 27 (Korea Bizwire) – LG Chem Ltd. said Friday it has filed additional lawsuits against local rival SK Innovation Co. in the United States over electric vehicle (EV) battery patents, upping the stakes of their month-long legal row. LG Chem said it filed a pair of lawsuits with the U.S. International Trade Commission [...]
DAEJEON, Sept. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Patents involving safety belts with a function to carry out cardiopulmonary resuscitation are increasing in number as research in the area is gaining speed. The Korean Intellectual Property Office (KIPO) reported that there were 104 patents related to safety belts over the last four years, which is more than [...]
DAEJEON, Aug. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — A new trend is rising at funerals where people access a virtual space on a smartphone to mourn for the deceased and send their condolences at a virtual mortuary. The Korean Intellectual Property Office (KIPO) reported that there were 24 patent applications related to smartphone funeral services in 2017. [...]
DAEJEON, Jul. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — As South Korea enters the monsoon season, road management authorities are increasingly concerned over potholes, the so-called ‘land mines of the road.’ As such, there are an increasing number of patents that deal with repairing sealcoated roads and pavement. Potholes refer to pot-shaped depressions in a road surface where [...]
DAEJEON, May 8 (Korea Bizwire) — As South Korea is expected to reach a post-aged society by 2025, where more than 20 percent of the population will be over 65 years old, experts are anticipating that caretaker robots will soon be introduced to everyday life, and developers have been scrambling to claim more patents for [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 31 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics Co. filed the largest number of patents related to self-driving cars in Europe, data showed Monday, far above traditional automobile manufacturers. According to the data compiled by the European Patent Office (EPO), the number of applications related to self-driving cars filed in Europe came to 3,998 in [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Video footage from closed circuit television shared via online networks is beginning to be used as baseline data for big data analysis, raising demand for related core technology as the world enters the 4th Industrial Revolution. To meet those needs, South Korean tech companies are actively applying for patents [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s smaller firms have lost nearly 86 percent of patent suits against large businesses this year due mainly to their lack of legal expertise and resources to protect their intellectual properties, a lawmaker said Tuesday. Citing data from the Korea Intellectual Property Office, Rep. Kim Jung-hoon of the [...]
DAEJEON, Dec. 29 (Korea Bizwire) – Interactive, tangible holograms from sci-fi films may soon become a reality. According to the Korea Intellectual Property Office, the number of hologram-related patents quadrupled to 343 in the four years since 2012, compared to the four years prior, with an increasing number of patent applicants now coming from inside [...]
DAEJEON, Dec. 26 (Korea Bizwire) – Patents for outdoor advertising making use of digital technology are becoming extremely popular. According to the Korea Intellectual Property Office, the average annual number of such patents, which stood at less than 50 prior to the 2000s, rose to some 300 from 2001 to 2010, and to 600 since [...]