IPO's New "Tech Police" Exclusively Dedicated to Preventing Technology Leakage and Infringement
date: 2022-08-08

    The Korean Intellectual Property Office (KIPO) Commissioner Yong Rae Kim announced the official formation of a separate special judicial police (SJP) group at KIPO solely devoted to preventing the leakage and infringement of key technologies that are core to national industrial competitiveness.

 

     KIPO recently carried out a restructuring with the purpose of expanding the former "Intellectual Property Investigation Division" and allowing concentrated investigations according to specific areas of intellectual property. A separate "Technology & Design Police Division" was newly established to carry out investigations related to primarily technologies and designs while the "Trademark Police Division" will continue with trademark investigations and the "Unfair Competition Investigation Division" with administrative investigations.

 

    Previously, the Intellectual Property Investigation Division consisted of 47 personnel to investigate illegal activities related to trademarks, patents, unfair competition, etc. In the restructuring, an additional 11 officers joined to supplement investigations regarding technology. Now, there are 22 people in the Technology & Design Police Division, 29 people in the Trademark Police Division, and 7 people in the Unfair Competition Investigation Division. 


Source: http://www.chinaipmagazine.com/en/news-show.asp?id=12507

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