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NEWS DESK
South Korea
hailed by British
attorneys
THE BRITISH ATTORNEYS visiting
Seoul on 27 November 2008 hope to find
out what makes South Korean companies
among the most active in the world, in
terms of patenting new inventions in
Europe and the USA.
“The Republic of Korea now has the
second fastest growth rate in the world
for filing patent applications outside its
own market,” says Dave Bradley,
President of the Chartered Institute of
Patent Attorneys. “This represents a
massive change, a country that used to be
seen as a low cost centre for
manufacturing goods that had been
designed in Europe, the USA or Japan is
now innovating, designing new products
and using the world’s intellectual property
system to protect its inventions. We look
forward to meeting industry leaders and
IP specialists to find out more about this
huge surge in new technology.”
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Mr Bradley is leading a delegation
from the UK’s Chartered Institute of
Patent Attorneys (CIPA) who are
attending a UK-EU IP Day at Seoul
When your
National University on 27 November.
The event is being organised by the
Korean Patent Attorneys Association.
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During seminars in the University’s
Centre for Law and Technology, CIPA
specialists will explain some of the recent
your product has it.
changes to the European patent system
that make it easier and lower cost for
Korean companies to register their
patents. Patent Attorney Jonathan
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Jackson will run one of the seminar
sessions on the European patent system.
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