Weekly Korean IP Headlines 01.15. 2013

We will touch on the latest Korean IP news headlines from WIPS Global blog.

Korea Money Today reported that Samsung Display and LG Display are focusing on securing OLED experts and Patent experts while they are in intensified Patent litigation related to AMOLED.  Samsung Display OLED department is recruiting 5 to 7 year-experienced engineers who have master above degree of electronics and electric wave engineering.  The areas of recruitment are electromagnetic waves, high speed digital signal processing design qualification and infrastructure.  Samsung Display is vigorously pushing forward huge OLED TV’s mass production which requires high speed data handling technologies.  Samsung Display put a quote on their job application provided, ‘Please be cautious on violation of trade secret.’  It can be interpreted Samsung is conscious of LG Display because they are in progression of litigation due to displace workers.  On the other hand, LG Display is recruiting more patent lawyers.  LG Display Human Resource center accepted job applications last week.  LG Display mentioned that “We are hiring Patent experts due to intensified patent competitiveness in the global market. Also we are short patent lawyers compare to other competitors in the market.” Click here the Korean article.

 

Korean MK News reported that Korean government wants to bring in Korean Bayh-Dole Act.  Around 23,000 patents and technologies owned by Government-funded research Institutes will be transferred to small and medium businesses if the action introduced. The Bayh-Dole Act is US legislation which adopted in 1980.  It gave US universities, small businesses and non-profits intellectual property control of their inventions and other intellectual property that resulted from such funding.  It permitted a universities, small businesses, or non-profit institution to elect to pursue ownership of an invention in preference to the government.  According to Korean Ministry of Knowledge Economy, Government Funded Research Institutes own around 23,028 patents in 2011.  The enforcement of Korean Bayh-Dole Act will accelerate technical commercialization between government-funded research institutes and small and medium businesses.  Original Article here.

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IBM Tops 2012 Patent Filing List

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IBM keeps its first spot for 20 years in a row. IBM announced that they filed 6,478 patents in 2012 and had largest number of patents, followed by Samsung and Cannon. The inventions include analytics, Big Data, cybersecurity, cloud, mobile, social networking and software defined environments, as well as industry solutions for retail, banking, healthcare, and transportation. IBM’s patent files are more than other 8 companies combined (Accenture, Amazon, Apple, EMC, HP, Intel and etc). And, the number of filing increased by 5% last year.

“We are proud of this new benchmark in technological and scientific creativity, which grows out of IBM’s century-long commitment to research and development,” said Ginni Rometty, chairman and CEO, IBM. 

▲ annual list of U.S. patent recipients on ificlaims.com

Samsung took second place with 5,081 patents. Apple got 22th rank on the patent list with 1,136 new patents in 2012.

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Warner Bros Wins Superman Copyright

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Warner Bros Pictures has won its major legal battle to maintain Superman copyright, cbsnews reported. This was Warner Bros.’s huge problem to release its new Supermen movie this year, and the problem is finally solved.

Cbsnews wrote that the 9^th US Court of Appeals said Jerome Siegel and the studio had an agreement in 2001, and Jerome should abide by the agreement. So Jerome Siegel’s attempt to recapture rights for Superman went to pieces. "Today's ruling vindicates DC Comics' long-held position that it entered into a binding agreement with the Jerry Siegel family in 2001," Warner Bros. said in a statement, Wall StreetJournal also reported. 

Click to go hollywoodreporter.com for more details and full decision. 

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