Something changed in Daejeon that most foreign patent holders never noticed 🇰🇷 — and that's exactly the problem. On October 1, 2025, South Korea quietly retired a four-decade-old administrative label and, with it, rewrote the chain of command that governs how patents,...
Somewhere inside the Korean Intellectual Property Office in Daejeon, an examiner is reading your claim language for the very first time, and they will read it exactly once before deciding whether it clears the bar for clarity. There is no second impression. If the...
South Korea quietly retired one of the most recognized acronyms in global patent practice. For nearly four decades, KIPO — the Korean Intellectual Property Office — was the name every foreign filer, examiner, and translator typed into a filing coversheet without a...