Last week, Apple announced its new
iPhone5. Even though Apple’s new iPhone5 didn’t wow everyone (some were
disappointed because there were no surprises or secrets compare to previous models),
it was still sensational. Its 4-inch display, dual-core processor, and
improvements to Siri were enough to attract more than two million people in the
first day.
Continue to its huge trial between Apple and Samsung, still news headlines are mostly about those two major cell phone makers. In addition, experts are expecting that the next round will be the 4G LTE war. Instead of looking at the tiresome Apple and Samsung news, let’s get some fresh information about this Week’s Korean Intellectual Property news.
Here is an editorial from Korea Herald, ‘Reality check on patents’ on September 12th, 2012
Continue to its huge trial between Apple and Samsung, still news headlines are mostly about those two major cell phone makers. In addition, experts are expecting that the next round will be the 4G LTE war. Instead of looking at the tiresome Apple and Samsung news, let’s get some fresh information about this Week’s Korean Intellectual Property news.
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Here is an editorial from Korea Herald, ‘Reality check on patents’ on September 12th, 2012
The editorial says that Patent filings by
Korean companies grew rapidly, but the quality of the patents they pursue is
not high. It also mentions that domestic companies need to shift the emphasis
of their patent activities from quantity
to quality. Also, the editorial mentions about the
relationship between Korean R&D ratio and essential patents rate. Check
out the details here.
On September 13th, Fox News covered, ‘UN shipment of high-tech to North Korea, Iran unjustified and unfathomable.’
Fox News reported that “the controversial shipments of U.S.- made computer equipment to North Korea and Iran by the United Nations’ World Intellectual Property Organization was not only “unjustified” but something “we simply cannot fathom,” according to an independent investigative report, commissioned by WIPO itself.” Check out the details about the relationship between WIPO and North Korea here.
On September 16th, Khaleej Times reported that ‘UAE ramps up cooperation to boost intellectual property.’
The report says that there were high level meeting held between the UAE Ministry of Economy (MOE), and the Korean Intellectual Property Office (KIPO) in Dubai. The discussion was about the setting up of an advance intellectual property framework of cooperation. If you want to know more about the details of this discussion, click here.
On September 18th, Korea IT Times interviewed Young-joo Lee, Deputy Director at S/W & IT Convergence Division of Ministry of Knowledge Economy.
He explained that “Korea’s source of industrial competitiveness is shifting from hardware to software.” In this interview, he mainly focused on the project called World Best Software (WBS). More details here, if you want to know more about the Korean R&D environment.
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