Patent Office Introduces New Electronic Application Software and Services

[Asia Economy (Daejeon) Reporter Jeong Il-woong] The Korean Intellectual Property Office (KIPO) has independently developed a new electronic application software (KIPO-Editor) and will provide related services.

On the 28th, KIPO announced that it will introduce and provide new electronic application software to be used for preparing 77 types of documents, including patent specifications.

The new software was developed to improve the limitations on the number of characters that could be input and the inconvenient editing functions in the existing software.

For example, previously, the number of Korean characters that could be input was limited to 2,350, making it difficult to represent characters such as ‘칢, 긂, 됭, 귬, 샾’ and restricting the use of symbols like ‘?, ß, ∑, ∞’.

However, the newly distributed electronic application software has been improved to allow input of all 11,172 characters included in Unicode (the standard character code system), enabling more precise expression of technical content in patent specifications, according to KIPO.

Additionally, if the prepared document violates regulations, the software provides the user with the location and details of the errors for correction, and convenience features such as a document tracking function have been added to easily check document changes.

The new electronic application software can be downloaded and used for free from the KIPO website.

Kim Ki-beom, Director of the Information Customer Support Bureau at KIPO, said, “KIPO will continue to improve the functions of the electronic application software so that patent customers can proceed with patent applications easily and quickly.”