World Intellectual Property Organization Archives

S. Korea Ranked World’s 11th Most Innovative Country: WIPO

SEOUL, Aug. 16 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea was ranked the 11th most innovative country in the world, a recent report by a United Nations agency showed Tuesday. The 2016 innovation ranking released by the U.N. World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) marks a solid improvement from last year when the agency ranked South Korea as [...]

Samsung Expected to Add Body Fat Analysis Feature in Mobile Devices

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 [...]