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A system approving a general name of designated goods when (151) |
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2008-09-03 |
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1. A system approving a general name of designated goods when filing an application for a trademark will be introduced
The Korean Intellectual Property Office (KIPO; Commissioner: Jungsik KOH) announced that, among the goods which were allowed to be registered on the ground that mutually similar goods are mixed (hereinafter, referred to as a general name), a total of 279 goods will be approved as designated goods. KIPO decided to apply this system approving a general name of designated goods to a trademark application being filed from September 16, 2008.
The term, “general name”, means a name including a number of goods names. A general name is classified into a name indicating the mutually similar goods only (called the ‘general name in the narrow sense’, for example, cosmetics, fertilizers and the like) and a name indicating a mixture of the mutually similar goods and the mutually dissimilar goods (called the ‘general name in the broad sense’, for example, clothes and the like). Among these general names, cosmetics have been approved and what to be approved as mentioned in this announcement is the general name in the broad sense.
As the general name is approved, various effects can be expected. First, to an applicant, a right is expanded by even single designated goods, the inconvenience of specifically indicating goods when filing a trademark application is reduced, and the time for preparing the application is shortened.
Second, prior to this system being introduced, since a name of the designated goods which were approved in advanced countries would not have been approved in the Republic of Korea, an applicant of an international application would receive a notification of rejection of the application and would submit an amendment responding to the notification. However, when this system is introduced, it is expected that foreign applicants’ inconvenience will be solved.
2. The number of patent applications related to the “Moire Technology” is rapidly increasing
- The use [of the Moire Technology] is expanded to the movie special effects, medical instruments, semiconductor test equipment and the like
The number of patent applications related to the “Moire Technology” which is used for measuring the 3-dimensional image is rapidly increasing.
The term, “Moire”, is a French word indicating a wavy watered appearance caused when a thin fabric such as silk is overlaid. The technology which three-dimensionally measures the appearance of an object by using the wavy pattern appearing when photographing the object using a camera is called the “Moire Technology”.
KIPO announced that the number of patent applications related to the “Moire Technology” was about 20 in 2004, increased to 40 in 2007 and has been rapidly increasing to 41 during the first half of this year.
The demand for the high-precise test equipments of semiconductors has increased in line with the development of tera-level semiconductors. Therefore, according to KIPO, the increase in the number of these patent applications is based on the active development of the relevant devices using the “Moire Technology” which is capable of performing precise measurement within a short time.
“Moire Technology” is used in diverse high-tech industrial fields, such as image data processes, medical instruments, precise measurement devices and the like. Consequently, the number of the patent applications related to the “Moire Technology” is expected to continuously increase in the future according to the relevant industrial development.
3. Patent applications regarding wind power is the rage
The number of patent applications related to wind power, which was just 70-80 per year in the early 2000s, increased to 129 in 2005 and 237 in 2007, almost three times that of the early 2000s.
Further, the number of these patent applications filed by companies and research institutions, which was about 10% in the early 2000s, steadily increased since 2005 and was 30% of the total of the patent applications in this field in 2007.
According to Gyujin JO who is a head of the Prime Mover machinery Examination team of KIPO, mostly individual inventors filed more applications in the wind power field in the early 2000s and companies or research institutions which were capable of commercializing the patent technology filed less applications. Recently, as research and development have been actively conducted by companies and research institutions, the total number of the applications related to the wind power has increased and the percentage of the number of the relevant applications filed by companies and research institutions has increased. Considering that the investment for the research and development in the field of new and renewable energy including wind power has steadily increased at the governmental level, the number of the relevant patent applications is expected to increase in the future.
In view of the recent technological tendency in the field of wind power based on the relevant patent applications, active developments have been conducted for the propeller pitch control technology which stably generates power even though wind speed changes, the technology which improves the propeller wing shape to solve the noise problem, and the technology in the field of driving devices.
4. The number of patent applications related to the GPS (position measurement) increases by an annual average 20%
The number of patent applications related to the position measurement technology of the global navigation satellite system or global positioning system (GPS) greatly increased by 20% annually.
According to KIPO, the total number of patent applications related to the GPS-related application technology decreased to 2077 in 2007 by 33.8%, compared to 3136 in 2005 when the most applications were filed. However, in contrast, the number of the applications related to the GPS position measurement-related technology increased by an annual average 19.4%.
The number of the applications related to the GPS position measurement actually rapidly increased from 107 in 2001, to 158 in 2004 and to 310 in 2007, by three times for seven years.
Classified by fields, the most applications were filed for GPS transmitters/receivers (24%). Followed are position measurements (20%), wire/wireless communications (19%), GPS application services (14%), traffic (12%), broadcasting (7%) and automobiles (4%).
According to the survey, in the field of the wire/wireless communications, the GPS technology is used in a device to prevent a missing child, a mobile network device, a mobile position tracking device and the like.
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