Weekly Korean IP Headlines 07.31. 2013

Korea and Japan reached an agreement on push China to protect Korean and Japanese firms in China according to Nihon Keizai Shimbun on 24th.  

Korea and Japan made the decision during the related departments’ meeting in Japan from 22nd to 24th.  Both countries’ patent offices will request improve the transparency during trial process in China at the trialogue conference end of August. 

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In China, the government only publicizes summarized evidence and sentencing which used during the patent trials. 

Meanwhile, IP related disputes in China will be depending because utility model right exercise has strengthened recently in China.  The Chinese authorities are granting Chinese firms utility model registration without separated examination process.  

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