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The Patent Court’s ruling that the applied-for mark “DEW” lacks distinctiveness due to a number of prior-registered marks combined with a word “Dew” (2021 Heo 5099) |
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Method of Judging Novelty of Patent Applications in the Case of Having the Same Constitution or Property with the Prior Art (The Korean Supreme Court’s decision on Decemb |
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Recent Patent Application Trends in the Field of Techniques Related to the Fourth Industrial Revolution |
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Whether a divisional application is eligible for a grace period based on the filing date of its parent application in the case that the grace period was not claimed at the time of |
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The Patent Court judged that “OUR HOSPITAL” is “a trademark which is likely to harm public interests in society at large, and is against public order” (2021 Heo 1257) |
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Revisions to the Offense of Infringement of Design Rights and Utility Model Rights (Enforced on June 10, 2022) |
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A case of denying the co-inventor status of a graduate student as a participating researcher who conducted an experiment under the direction of an advisory professor (Patent Court |
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The Korean Supreme Court’s decision as to whether a prior “dismissal trial decision” on a ground of violating the doctrine of res judicata belongs to “a final and conclus |
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Cases of Rulings on Trademarks Combined Only with Indistinctive Marks |
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First Decision Confirming that a Pharmaceutical Substance Patent Covers Generic Prodrug |
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