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IPR Committee Luncheon Meeting with the Korea Customs Service |
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 The EUCCK¡¯s Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) Committee is hosting a luncheon meeting on "Industry¡¯s Outlook on Korea's IPR Situation & Korean Government¡¯s Future Plans to Abate Counterfeiting and Piracy" with Mr. Ki Young Kim, director general of Clearance Facilitation Bureau of the Korea Customs Service (KCS) on July 20, 2006 (Thursday) at the Park Hyatt Hotel.
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Meeting Report on the Joint Dialogues with the EC Directorate General for Trade |
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June 15, Seoul- During an exclusive meeting with the European Commission, the EUCCK IPR Committee asserted a growing concern that Korea's lack of IPR protection may hurts its current efforts to sign a free trade agreement with major trading partner countries. Ms. Marianne Gumaelius, Deputy Head of Unit New Technologies, Intellectual Property, Public Procurement and Trade Relations with Japan of the European Commission and the EUCCK's IPR Committee discussed IPR matters of direct interest to the European business community, which included border control enforcement, criminal cases and deterrence, trademark protection, and copyright protection issues.
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Courtesy Call to the Ministry of Justice |
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 The EUCCK IPR Committee staff members will make a courtesy call to the International Criminal Division of the Ministry of Justice on July 21st, in which the committee will present the IPR Committee members¡¯ concerns over the counterfeiting and piracy activities existing and causing grave harm to several foreign business sectors in Korea.
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"Reinforcement of Patent Right Protection" - Advice for Protecting Your Business |
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by Young Hill Liew, the legal counsel of the EUCCK IPR Committee and Head of the IP Practice of Woo Yun Kang Jeong & Han
"Do Korean IP practices meet global standards?" There are basic concerns to be taken into account when formulating a patent strategy in Korea. Companies can create a better positioned patent or resolutions for patent disputes if they first understand that there are unique features of the law and practice under the Korean patent registration system.
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| Recently announced by the EU Commission, the European Business Organizations (EBOs) members have won the bid for proposal for the Asia-Invest II Programme, a two year joint IPR protection project aimed at creating an inter-regional network for IPR information exchange, raising IPR protection awareness in the region, building capacity based on regional research initiatives and strengthening cooperation with a view to substantially reducing the global trade in pirated and counterfeit products, and to taking effective measures against networks supporting such trade. |
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 JJune 19, Daejon- Adidas, a member of the EUCCK IPR Committee is actively contributing to the training of government inspectors on how to differentiate between genuine and counterfeit Adidas item sold in infamous market areas and factories across the country. Adidas Korea participates in KIPO¡¯s Intellectual Property Training program in Daejon four times a year to educate investigators of the Korea Customs Service, Korea Intellectual Property Office, Korea National Police Agency and the Prosecutors Office on details of Adidas¡¯ IP protection activities, trademark information and every aspect to look out for when the officials encounter an infringement activity.
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The Trade Cooperation Division (TCD) of the Korea Customs Service (KCS) and the EUCCK IPR Committee held an internal meeting on July 13, 2006 at the EUCCK Headquarters to discuss future plans for cooperation concerning strengthening IPR awareness and protection.
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- Learn the appropriate application strategies of small/medium companies and individual applicants from lawsuit cases -
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- Court costs supported up to KRW 20 million (USD 21 thousand) when entering a lawsuit with large enterprises -
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- KIPO provides a ¡®patent search service delivered to customers¡¯ -
Starting now, researchers will be able to search for patents at the homepage of their own agency.
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KIPO (Commissioner: JUN, Sang Woo) announced that it would provide a service for customers who are due a refund. These customers will be able to use their refunds to pay the fee for other services through the KIPO homepage. This service will begin on July 1st, 2006.
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KIPO (Commissioner: JUN, Sang Woo) announced that its call center for patent customers (Tel: 1544-8080) has received CQM (Contact Center Qualified Mark), a quality authentication for call centers, on June 15th.
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The Korea Customs Service (KCS) was awarded with "WCO Trophy 2006"in recognition of its contribution to protecting intellectual property rights (IPR) at the Council of the World Customs Organization (WCO) held on June 30, 2006 in Brussels, Belgium.
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Korea¡¯s export losses from foreign counterfeit products last year is estimated at $17.1 billion, equal to 6 percent of the country¡¯s annual exports totaling $285 billion.
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The average film copyright thief is male, between the ages of 16 and 24, and lives in an urban area. College students in the United States, Korea and Hungary contribute the most to each country's individual loss.
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