WIPS Hosted 'User Seminar 2012' on December 6th

WIPS held ‘User Seminar 2012’ at Imperial Palace Hotel in Seoul on December 6th.

Despite the bad condition of weather, lots of clients and IP experts attended this seminar.  The first subject was ’Developmental Direction of WIPS IP Total Service’, and WIPS IP case studies were presented in second session.    

The seminar began with the CEO of WIPS Hyung-Chil Lee’s greeting that how WIPS would make a huge leap forward in the world next year. After his greeting, directors from each division gave presentations with various subjects and had some time for questions.

▲ WIPS IP Total Service, eun-young Park Markting Dep. 

 ▲ Development Direction of WIPS’ IP Service, Song-ho Lee, Planning Dep.

▲ Technology Intelligence for Corporate Innovations, Allen Yeo, Singapore Office

 ▲ Researching Method and Use of Online Services, Jung-sun Kim, IP Searching Center

▲ APPLE’s Design Protection Strategy, Do-young Kim, Brand Design Center

▲ Patented Technology Transfer and Case Analysis, Jea-sung Yoon, Strategy Dep.

 ▲ Stratege for Promising Technic with Patent, Sung-eun Park, WIPS IP edu-Center

▲ LG Chemical and Dow Chemical Patent Issue Analysis, Suk-jun Kim, WIPS IP edu-Center

The User Seminar 2012 was ended with many attendees and clients successfully. Thank you for all the interests for our seminar and IP services. We’ll bring a lot more useful and development IP information next year. 

All images were originally posted on WIPS Korean Blog. 

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Holiday Gift Ideas 2012

Christmas is coming.  Are you ready to get stocking stuffers and Christmas Presents for you loved ones? You might need scurrying around looking for unique gifts for your co-workers, relatives and families.  Why don’t you purchase some eco-friend items for your Holiday gifts list?  You can give meaningful gifts to your loved ones and save the earth at the same time. Here are some ‘green’ and 'sustainable' ideas for your holiday gifts.



© Moshi | iGlaze

Moshi is the electronics design brand store located in California, USA.  The store emphasizes the environmental responsibility and aware of environmental impacts.  Moshi uses recycled materials for packaging and boxing.  Moshi’s Galaxy S III’s snap hard case ‘iGlaze’ packed with 100% recyclable package which printed with soy ink.  Moshi adhere to California’s Proposition 65 and RoHS standards which were enacted to eliminate the use of hazardous substances during production.  

©Gentle Monster | The frame packages

Korean Fashion Glasses Frame brand ‘Gentle Monster’ showed used coffee bean sacks and harmless coating metals as frame packages.  Each of this ‘Future Vintage’ concept package has different patterns because of recycled coffee bean sacks from various places.  Gucci and Safilo also introduced new sustainable packages.  Their package has designed to reduce materials, exclusively use FSC (Forest stewardship council) Certified paper and to be 100% recyclable.

© PUMA | Clever Little Bag

Sportswear and Sneaker brand PUMA introduced ‘Clever Little Bag’ project in 2010. Boxes contribute to millions of tons of waste a year.  By providing structure to a cardboard sheet, the bag uses 65% less cardboard than the standard shoe box, has not laminated printing, no tissue paper, takes up less space and weighs less in shipping, and replaces the plastic retail bag. Also the bag is non-woven, stitched with heat.  It protects the shoes from dust and dirt in the warehouse and during whipping.  With this project, PUMA consumed approximately 8,500 tons less paper and saved 20 million Mega joules of electricity, 1 million liters less fuel oil, and 1milllion liters of water.     


© Pangea Organics | Holiday Gift Box

Cosmetic brand Pangea Organics always provide the eco packaging that is plantable and turns into Basil. In 2008, Pangea Organics introduced holiday gift box actually grows a spruce tree.   

©Lush | Cornboy

UK’s organic handmade cosmetic brand Lush avoids the product packaging.  Lush uses minimum packaging for their products and uses 90% recyclable ingredients. Since 2011, Lush has been used pack of ‘Cornboys’ than tissue papers. ‘Cornboy’ is biodegradable wrapping buffer which is degradable in the water.  ‘Cornboy’ is made from simple ingredients; corn starch and food coloring.    

* This posting is restructured based on ‘Design Map’ by Korean Intellectual Property Office.

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Weekly Korean IP Headlines 11.29. 2012

On December 3rd, MK News reported that Samsung Electronics is spending around 18 billion dollars to 23 billion dollars per year for patent management fee.  The total management fee reaches multi-billion dollars including non-operation expenses.  Samsung’s work-related invention compensation system has paid 5 billion dollars for recent 10 years to encourage employees’ invention activity and patent applications.  According to the article, Samsung has been paid two different incentives for work-related inventions: when one patent gets the loyalty from another company, and when one patent reduces or prevents to pay loyalties to other companies.  Samsung paid incentives for 1200 cases during the past10 years and there are 350 employees who got the patent incentives for last 3 years.  Check out the original article here.

© Samsung |  Samsung CI

PRNews reported on December 7th, KIPA hosted Seoul International Invention Fair 2012 on November 29th to December 2nd in COEX Hall A, Korea.  KIPA hosted approximately 700 new-generation inventions.  The grand prize winner of this years’ SIIF was Minchi Cung and his five co-inventors from Taiwan who developed an Extraction Device for Different Phases and Polar Ingredients.  Hyundai Mobis won the semi-grand prize by presenting its inventions, Car Flap Control System and Its methods of Control. SIIF also organized the business matchmaking pavilion for domestic and foreign buyers in order to promote business activities.  The invention fair played a special role as it was held along with the Korea Invention Patent Exhibition 2012, and 2012 Trademark-Design Right Exhibition this year.  Check out the original article here.

© KIPA | SIIF 2012

Korean medical news agency Medipana reported on 8th, As the aged population increases, the patent applications in the field of the medical instruments for aged people such as neurological equipments also increase.  Korea Health Industry Development Institute analyzed the trend of medical instruments for senile disorders.  According to the institute, an average annual growth rate of patent applications for medical appliances has been increased for last 12 years.  Among these applications, patents for neurological equipments and otolaryngological appliances are rapidly increasing.  Check out the original Korean article here.

© KHIDI | Captured image from KHIDI

Korean Economy Today reported on 9th, the recent wave of metro-sexuality influenced the trend of men’s cosmetic brand trademarks.  According to KIPO, trademark applications combined with the words ‘Homme’, ‘For men’ which express the ‘man’ in 1970s were only 4 cases.  However, this case has been increased; 22 cases in 1980s, 56 cases in 1990s, and 246 cases after 2000s.  Eventually, the cases increased to 36 cases in 2011, end of October 2012 was 38 cases.  According to the article, the phenomenon cuased by men's viewpoint change followed by time changes.  KIPO also stated that “Cosmetic products are known for women’s necessities in the past.  However, the change of life style and the notion of beauty caused men to have their own cosmetics to satisfy the desire of better appearance.”  Check out the original article here.  BBC News also reported this interesting phenomenon on December 3rd.  Check out the link here.  

© BBC | Captured image from BBC News

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