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2008-11-17

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1. Customized service for patent trials will be available

In the future, the concerned parties of a patent trial can receive a written trial decision at their desired time.

The Korean Intellectual Property Tribunal (KIPT) announced that they would make available ¡®customized trial processes¡¯ to meet the various demands of trial parties and to provide timely trial results to be used as the means of settling disputes. Accordingly, the trial procedures will be conducted in three processes such as a prompt trial, a preferential trial and a general trial.

As for the prompt trial procedure to be newly introduced, in a case (called an ¡®inter parties trial¡¯ such as an invalidation trial and a scope confirmation trial) where two concerned parties are opposed to each other, when the two concerned parties agree to a prompt trial and cooperate to proceed the procedures of a judgment division, they can receive a trial decision within 4 months from the date of filing the trial.

As for the existing preferential and general trials, KIPT¡¯s policy is to terminate a preferential trial within 6 months and a general trial within 9 months.

KIPT has processed trials (except for some preferential trials) so as to be terminated within average 6 months from the date of filing a trial to tje date of reaching a decision in the trial.

After a trial service for 3 months from November 2008 to January 2009, KIPT will provide an actual service.

One concerned party of a trial using the prompt trial during the trial service period may submit a ¡®written agreement to a prompt trial¡¯ to KIPT within a time limit for submitting a written response, with the consent of the other concerned party.


2. The Korean Intellectual Property Office (KIPO; Commissioner: Jungsik KOH) will export a patent document classification service to the U.S.A.

KIPO announced that they exchanged a memorandum of understanding (MOU) regarding the exportation of a patent document classification service with the commissioner of United States of Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

Accordingly, KIPO will take charge of the work of assigning patent classification codes to about 15,000 US patent documents and USPTO will pay the total of 250,000 US Dollars to KIPO.

The technology requested by USPTO at this time relates to the wireless mobile communication field. A spokesman of KIPO explained that USPTO appears to have entrusted KIPO with the technology in the wireless mobile communication field, considering that the Republic of Korea leads the technological development in this field.

The patent document classification service will be progressed for 6 months from January to June, 2009. If the results are good, it is expected that USPTO will increase the technological fields to subject to this service.

KIPO plans to provide high-quality patent document classification services by using highly qualified people and thoroughly managing the quality of the work product.


3. The patent infringement by the SiRF GPS chips comes to involve

GPS components companies have been busily moving, coping with the results of the SiRF patent litigation.

Chips which have been generally used in GPS modules, mobile phones, PMPs, navigations and the like are the products of SiRF Technology in the U.S.A. This company has dominated the whole world¡¯s GPS chip market as an unequaled presence.

However, in August 2008, the US International Trade Commission (ITC) decided that the importation of SiRF¡¯s GPS chips should be tentatively prohibited based on the reason that the ¡®SiRF Star 3¡¯ and ¡®SiRF Instant GPS Architecture¡¯ which were SiRF¡¯s products infringed 6 patents of Global Locate. Global Locate was taken over by Broadcom, last year. The final judgment of ITC will be made in December, 2008. However, if the current decision is kept as it is, the possibility of closing off the Korean companies¡¯ export of the product to the U.S.A. will be high.

According to the relevant industries¡¯ report dated October 26, 2008, Korean companies relating to GPS modules, navigations and the like have been replacing the SiRF¡¯s chips involved in the patent litigation with the other companies¡¯ chips. Since patent infringement by SiRF has been known, the Korean branch office of U-Blox, a competitor of SiRF, has had a rush of inquires from companies trying to find alternatives to the SiRF¡¯s products to prepare for a possible change. A spokesman of the Korean branch office of U-Blox said, ¡°Two Korean GPS module manufacturing companies decided to use the U-Box¡¯ products, and navigation companies are positively reviewing the alternations.¡±

A spokesman of Hyundai Autonet said, ¡°Hyundai Autonet¡¯s navigation systems are mounted onto automobiles exported to the U.S.A. We do not use SiRF¡¯s potentially infringing products for the exported automobiles with the performance of the competitor¡¯s products being the same.¡±


4. The Electronics and Telecommunication Research Institute (ETRI) developed the security technology based on geographical information, ¡°don¡¯t move, hacker!¡±

ETRI announced that they developed an intelligent ¡®artificial monitoring and tracking (AMTRAC) system¡¯ of a cyber attack. This system detects network problems in real-time and analyzes them, and clearly indicates the country and the place where an attacker (hacker) breaking into a network is located.

When hacking is attempted, previous security systems are performed by detecting an attack by determining whether hacking pattern is identified. However, the technology developed by ETRI monitors abnormal phenomena in network by patterning (visualizing) an attacking act of the hacker, analyzes the abnormal phenomena in detail and monitors attacks generated in the wireless LAN and network conditions through a traffic monitor, to visualize them in real-time.

Furthermore, the technology developed by ETRI is connected to IP address information and a geographical information system (GIS) of a maximum accumulation ratio of 5,000:1. Therefore, against a hacker¡¯s cyber attack, this technology accurately tracks and visualizes the country and place where the hacker attacking the network is located.

Based on the substantial location information of the IP address, this technology is valuably used for the u-City (ubiquitous City) united management centers, the security management in private/public institutions, the internet phone (VoIP) emergency call center, the security control of major core base facilities, and the like.

ETRI plans to complete the AMTRAC system by the end of this year, by developing a technology which is capable of indicating the location by connecting the geographical information to the properties of clients using a web service provided as a new function and which is capable of tracking all clients on the web-related e-mails, bulletin boards and the like.

ETRI has 13 cases including patent applications and patents related to the intelligent network security technology in home and abroad. The world security control market is expected to be 71,800,000,000 US dollars in 2011. ¡¡

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