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In 2025, Korea strengthened its institutional framework for intellectual property policy with the elevation and reorganization of the Korean Intellectual Property Office into the Ministry of Intellectual Property (MOIP).
In parallel with this institutional transition, MOIP advanced the digital transformation of IP administration with the aim of making IP services more accessible, efficient, and responsive to the rapidly changing innovation environment.
Particular emphasis was placed on strengthening Korea's digital IP infrastructure and expanding the use of AI and data across IP administration.
Major initiatives included upgrading the national IP search platform, opening AI-ready IP datasets, applying AI to patent trial and appeal services.
The number of patent applications filed in Korea increased from 246,245 in 2024 to 260,797 in 2025, representing an increase of 5.9%.
PCT international applications originating from Korea also increased, from 23,851 in 2024 to 25,014 in 2025, an increase of 4.9%, placing Korea fourth worldwide.
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In February 2025, MOIP launched a fully upgraded version.
The upgrade introduced unified searching of domestic and overseas IP information, redesigned search menus and results pages, responsive displays for PCs, tablets and smartphones, and an integrated Korean-English interface.
Analytical functions were also enhanced by providing search results in tables, charts and graphs and expanding statistics on overseas trademark and design data.
In April 2025, MOIP released seven high-quality AI-ready IP datasets free of charge through KIPRISplus.
The datasets cover Korean patent and utility model publications, U.S. patent publications, notifications of grounds for rejection and decisions of refusal, Korean-English machine translations of patent family data, IPC data, machine-reading comprehension data for patent consultations, and patent customer consultation cases.
The datasets are intended to facilitate the use of patent information for AI training and applications such as patent analysis, technology intelligence and IP consultation.
MOIP uses the International Patent Classification (IPC) and the Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC) for the classification of patent information. In 2025, IPC data was included among the seven AI-ready IP datasets made available through KIPRISplus.
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Since 1999, MOIP has been building search databases for domestic and overseas intellectual property rights. Currently, it acquires IPR data from 56 foreign countries, including the IP5 offices such as the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
In 2008, Korean patent literature was included in the PCT minimum documentation, which must be mandatorily consulted by patent offices worldwide during international patent examinations.
This inclusion highlighted the importance of maintaining the quality of MOIP’s search databases.
To this end, MOIP has established systems to systematically refine and process acquired domestic and foreign data for errors before incorporating them into the search databases.
Since 1948, MOIP has published industrial property gazettes. In May 1998, the format was changed to CD-ROM, and since July 2001, gazettes have also been available through an online service.
On a monthly basis, gazettes are distributed via DVD and FTP to 17 countries and organizations.
In 2025, approximately 796,000 gazettes were published, contributing to the protection of applicants’ rights and safeguarding Korea’s intellectual property rights abroad.
The KPA is an English-language abstract of the main contents of inventions published in the Korean Patent Gazette, designed to enable foreign examiners and users to understand them quickly and accurately.
Each abstract consists of bibliographic data, a summary, and a representative drawing.
Including the 155,584 abstracts published in 2025, a total of 3,667,578 English abstracts have been issued to date.
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Since 1999, MOIP has been operating KIPOnet, its integrated IP administration system.
The IP administration segment comprises 35 systems covering the filing, registration, examination, and trial and appeal processes for patents, utility models, trademarks, and industrial designs.
The general administration segment consists of 10 systems, including knowledge management, performance management, and the official website.
In December 2025, MOIP completed the three-year development of an AI-based Digital Patent Trial and Appeal System.
The system utilizes approximately 180,000 trial decisions and court judgments to classify cases by legal and technical issues and employs an LLM to summarize the key issues and grounds raised in trial requests.
Based on the summarized information, the system retrieves similar trial decisions and court judgments through the search system.
It also provides an automated comparison of registered patent specifications with corrected versions, as well as a pre-issuance review function designed to identify potential errors or omissions before decisions are finalized.
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MOIP strengthened human resource development to foster creativity and practical IP capabilities in response to the rapidly changing innovation environment.
Through the International Intellectual Property Training Institute (IIPTI), MOIP expanded customized training for businesses, universities, and other participants across the IP ecosystem, while strengthening specialized and digital education in emerging technologies, invention education, IP valuation and finance, and IP administration.
MOIP produced and distributed English-language brochures and guidebooks for KIPRIS and KIPRISplus.
It also posted videos on YouTube introducing the latest updates and explaining how to use the services.
In addition, MOIP promoted broader discussion on the utilization and dissemination of industrial property information through a National Assembly forum on the promotion and dissemination of industrial property information in July 2025 and the IP Information Policy Forum in November.
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MOIP annually conducts IP system consulting projects for Global South countries to support the improvement of IP administration systems and public services.
The projects include high-level policy dialogue, expert consultations, capacity-building seminars, and on-site workshops, sharing Korea’s experience and expertise in IP policies, digital administration systems, and emerging technologies.
MOIP holds the annual PATINEX (PATent INformation EXpo), featuring keynote speeches and lectures by domestic and international experts on major patent information issues.
The event includes presentations on patent information dissemination policies and utilization practices by patent offices and companies. It also provides opportunities for patent information service exhibitions and business meetings between enterprises and institutions.
In 2025, under the theme “AI Revolution, Reinvent the Future with IP data” the expo attracted 800 participants and 30 companies and organizations.
Note: For each Standard listed below, please enter one of the following values:
"Fully implemented"
The WIPO Standard has been implemented in a manner compliant or compatible with the Standard.
"Partially implemented"
The WIPO Standard has been implemented in part. The Office practice aligns with some, but not all, requirements of the Standard.
"On implementation phase"
The decision to implement the WIPO Standard has been made and it is currently being deployed, configured, or integrated into systems and workflows.
"Planning to implement"
The decision to implement the WIPO Standard has been made; planning activities (resource allocation, timeline development, technical design) are underway before actual implementation begins.
"On assessment phase"
The WIPO Standard is under active evaluation to determine its feasibility, technical requirements, costs, benefits, and alignment with organizational needs before making an implementation decision.
"No plan to implement"
The WIPO Standard has been reviewed and there is currently no intention or plan to implement it.
WIPO Standard ST.1: Recommendation concerning the minimum data elements required to uniquely identify a patent document
Fully implemented
WIPO Standard ST.2: Standard manner for designating calendar dates by using the Gregorian calendar
Fully implemented
WIPO Standard ST.3: Recommended standard on two-letter codes for the representation of states, other entities and intergovernmental organizations
Fully implemented
WIPO Standard ST.6: Recommendation for the numbering of published patent documents
Fully implemented
WIPO Standard ST.8: Standard recording of international patent classification (IPC) symbols on machine-readable records
Fully implemented
WIPO Standard ST.9: Recommendation concerning bibliographic data on and relating to patents and SPCs
Fully implemented
WIPO Standard ST.10: Published patent documents
Fully implemented
WIPO Standard ST.10/A: Format (margins, size) of patent documents
Fully implemented
WIPO Standard ST.10/B: Layout of bibliographic data components
Fully implemented
WIPO Standard ST.10/C: Presentation of bibliographic data components
Fully implemented
WIPO Standard ST.10/D: Guidelines on physical characteristics of patent documents particularly relevant to reproducibility and legibility of such documents
No plan to implement
WIPO Standard ST.11: Recommendation on the minimum of indexes to be inserted in patent gazettes or published in association with patent gazettes
No plan to implement
WIPO Standard ST.12: Guidelines for the preparation of abstracts of patent documents
Partially implemented
WIPO Standard ST.12/A: General guidelines for the preparation of abstracts of patent documents
Partially implemented
WIPO Standard ST.12/B: Guidelines for the preparation of categorized patent abstract
Partially implemented
WIPO Standard ST.12/C: Guidelines for the physical characteristics of separately published abstracts in selective dissemination of information (SDI) presented in the form of card files
No plan to implement
WIPO Standard ST.13: Recommendation for the numbering of applications for industrial property rights (IPRs)
No plan to implement
WIPO Standard ST.14: Recommendation for the inclusion of references cited in patent documents
Partially implemented
WIPO Standard ST.15: Guidelines for the wording of titles of inventions in patent documents
Fully implemented
WIPO Standard ST.16: Recommended standard code for the identification of different kinds of patent documents
Fully implemented
WIPO Standard ST.17: Recommendation for the coding of headings of announcements made in official gazettes
No plan to implement
WIPO Standard ST.18: Recommendation concerning patent gazettes and other patent announcement journals
No plan to implement
WIPO Standard ST.19: Recommendation for the publication of indexes issued yearly/half-yearly/quarterly by industrial property offices
No plan to implement
WIPO Standard ST.20: Recommendations for the preparation of name indexes to patent documents
Partially implemented
WIPO Standard ST.21: Recommendation concerning the reduction of volume of priority documents as filed with industrial property offices
No plan to implement
WIPO Standard ST.22: Recommendation for the authoring of patent applications for the purpose of facilitating optical character recognition (OCR)
Partially implemented
WIPO Standard ST.25: Standard for the presentation of nucleotide and amino acid sequence listings in patent applications
Fully implemented
WIPO Standard ST.26: Recommended standard for the presentation of nucleotide and amino acid sequence listings using XML (extensible markup language)
Fully implemented
WIPO Standard ST.27: Recommendation for the exchange of patent legal status data
Fully implemented
WIPO Standard ST.31: Recommended standard coded character sets for the exchange of machine-readable records of patent documents
No plan to implement
WIPO Standard ST.32: Recommendation for the markup of patent documents using SGML (standard generalized markup language)
No plan to implement
WIPO Standard ST.33: Recommended standard format for data exchange of facsimile information of patent documents
No plan to implement
WIPO Standard ST.34: Recommendation concerning the recording of application numbers in electronic form for the exchange of bibliographic data
No plan to implement
WIPO Standard ST.35: Recommended standard format for data exchange of mixed-mode published patent document information on reel-to-reel and IBM 3480/90 cartridge tapes
No plan to implement
WIPO Standard ST.36: Recommendation for the processing of patent information using XML (extensible markup language)
Partially implemented
WIPO Standard ST.37: Recommendation for an authority file of published patent documents
Fully implemented
WIPO Standard ST.40: Recommendation concerning making facsimile images of patent documents available on CD-ROM
No plan to implement
WIPO Standard ST.50: Guidelines for issuing corrections, alterations and supplements relating to patent information
Fully implemented
WIPO Standard ST.90: Recommendation for processing and communicating intellectual property data using web APIs (Application Programming Interfaces)
Partially implemented
WIPO Standard ST.91: Recommendations on digital three-dimensional (3D) models and 3D images
Partially implemented
WIPO Standard ST.92: Recommendations on the data package format for the electronic exchange of priority documents
On implementation phase
WIPO Standard ST.96: Recommendation for the processing of intellectual property information using XML (extensible markup language)
Fully implemented
WIPO Standard ST.97: Recommendation for processing of intellectual property data using JSON
No plan to implement
Please include any other relevant information here.
1.Classification is allotting one or more classification symbols (e.g., IPC symbols) to a patent application, either before or during search and examination, which symbols are then published with the patent application.
2. Preclassification is allotting an initial broad classification symbol (e.g., IPC class or subclass, or administrative unit) to a patent application, using human or automated means for internal administrative purposes (e.g., routing an application to the appropriate examiner). Usually preclassification is applied by the administration of an office.
3. Reclassification is the reconsideration and usually the replacement of one or more previously allotted classification symbols to a patent document, following a revision and the entry into force of a new version of the Classification system (e.g., the IPC). The new symbols are available on patent databases.
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