Source: KIPO
Date: 2012. 10. 26

The Korean Intellectual Property Office (KIPO, Commissioner Ho-won Kim) and the Korean Presidential Council on IP (Chairman Jong-young Yoon) held the 2012 IP Protection Conference under the theme of “Strategies to Protect IPRs such as How to Respond to International Patent Disputes and Manage Trade Secrets” on October 25 (Thu) at the Ritz Carlton Hotel in Seoul.

Since international IPR disputes are expected to increase in the United States, Europe, and China and spread from IT to pharmaceutical and automobile industries, among others, KIPO organized the conference to present strategies for companies to protect their IPRs.

Chairman Jong-young Yoon of the Korean Presidential Council for IP and Commissioner Ho-won Kim of KIPO participated in the conference. Vice President Sean P. Murphy of Qualcomm in the United States gave a keynote speech on “Innovation and Patent Strategy in the Global Company” and Professor Sang-jo Jong of Seoul National University gave a keynote speech on “Outlook and Study on IPR Wars in a Convergence Era.”

During the conference, two different sessions on IPR disputes and trade secret protection were held with detailed lectures.

The session on IPR disputes coverd a variety of topics including policies that support the protection of IPRs; the differences between the Korean and US IPR systems; and strategies to respond to patent disputes and trademark infringements.

The session on trade secret protection coverd policies that protect trade secrets; trade secret protection strategies in terms of human resources management; investigation cases and measures to respond to the leakage of trade secrets; proper corporate trade secret protection policies; differences between the Korean and US trade secret disputes; and outstanding cases of companies managing trade secrets.

Director General Young-dae Lee of KIPO’s Intellectual Property Policy Bureau said, “We prepared the conference for the Korean government, companies, and academia to gather in one place and draw up strategies to respond to the recently exacerbating IPR wars and create a common ground for the protection of IPRs.