Korea’s patent information system will now be exported to the UAE.
The Korean Intellectual Property Office (KIPO) and the UAE Ministry for Economic Affairs on Feb. 25 signed a contract worth USD 4.5 million covering the export and a memorandum of understanding (MOU) on future cooperation.
Under the agreement, both countries will cooperate on establishing an online patent information system and educational programs in the intellectual property sector. Korea will also cooperate to help the UAE government extend its bureaus in the patent sector by providing consultations.
KIPO Commissioner Choi Donggyou and Ahmed Al Shehhi, undersecretary for the economy at the Ministry for Economic Affairs, pose for photo after signing an MOU covering cooperation and the export of Korea’s intellectual property management system to the UAE.
Korea will build a digital patent information system that will cover all administrative procedures. As the first step, by this June both countries will build an online system for e-applications and mobile services. By the end of the year, they will also build a system to review patent applications, registrations and other related services. In this regard, from March until the end of the year the Korea Institute of Patent Information will form a consortium to carry out the project for the UAE government.
This is the first time that a partner country can afford the entire cost of the establishment of a patent information system. Korea has been providing support for the establishment of patent information systems to Mongolia, Azerbaijan and to the African Regional Intellectual Property Organization, all as a form of official development assistance (ODA).
Korea and the UAE signed their MOU covering their comprehensive partnership in the intellectual property right sector in February 2014. Since then, both countries have been maintaining a cooperative partnership in the intellectual property right sector by dispatching five Korean officials who helped the UAE government to review patent applications.
Korea is now exporting its patent information system to the UAE. This includes the establishment of an online service to provide patent information, and administrative procedural systems in regard to patents covering intellectual property. KIPO’s online patent information system is called the Korea Intellectual Property Rights Information Service (KIPRIS).
KIPO Commissioner Choi Donggyou said, “The export of online patent information systems to the UAE has widened Korea-UAE cooperation, which used to focus on the conventional areas of resources, energy and construction, but has now expanded to cover intellectual property and online government services, both of which add value and which are considered new engines of economic growth.”
By Yoon Sojung
Korea.net Staff Writer
Photos: KIPO
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Korea and the UAE sign an MOU covering the export of Korea’s intellectual property system to the Middle Eastern country.
