Source: etnews
Three East Asian countries, Korea, China and Japan, are vying to foster the patent information industry. For starters, China said it would build the national patent information platform in 2 years. Japan is also preparing comprehensive measures to invigorate the private intellectual property (IP) service market. Korea is developing the convergence information service to invigorate the IP information industry. Major East Asian countries are all out to create the patent information market.
On September 5, KIPO hosted the `PATent Information EXpo (PATINEX 2013)` at the Imperial Palace Hotel in Seoul under the theme of ‘East Asian IP information.’
PATINEX is an international event where you can get the latest trends in the East Asian patent information market and the strategies for patent information utilization. This year Tiejun Yang, Vice-Commissioner of China KIPO, State Intellectual Property Office (SIPO), and Yoshitake Kihara, Deputy Commissioner, Japan Patent Office (JPO) delivered a keynote speech on the Chinese and Japanese patent policies and patent information utilization strategies on behalf of SIPO and JPO. “Since the Chinese government announced the ‘Outline of Strategy of National Intellectual Knowledge Property’ in 2008, the public awareness of the importance of IP and demands for its utilization have been rapidly increasing,” said Mr. Tiejun Yang. “We are establishing the 5-year IP development plan for each government department.”
Like Korea, Japan is taking a ‘two-track’ approach to market making. Organizations like the Japan Patent Information Organization (JIPO) will provide inexpensive basic data, and data, from which high value-added can be obtained when information is analyzed and processed, will be provided to the private IP service market. “The basic data of public institutions will be free of charge so that individuals and SMEs can use it,” said Mr. Yoshitake Kihara. “As demands for high-level services like investigation and analysis are increasing, we will foster the private IP information service market.” The Japan Patent Office is planning to revamp the first-year JPO system starting next year until 2018. Targeting the East Asian market, it is going to expand the Korean and Chinese patent information search, and provide information in real time. It is also planning to maximize information access by innovating the user interface (UI).
“Utilization of patent information is the basis of all intellectual property activities from R&D to litigation,” said Kim Young-min, Commissioner of the Korean Intellectual Property Office. “KIPO will make and carry out specific plans so that useful overseas patent information, needed by the private sector, will be made available as soon as possible and can create added value in the market.”
At the exhibition booths of PATINEX, which will be held until September 6, you can directly experience the diverse patent information services of 19 domestic and overseas patent information companies and organizations like WIPS (Korea), ANYFIVE (Korea), Intellectual Discovery (Korea), CPA Global (UK) and iptizen (Korea).