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| IP Newsletter | Spring 2014 |
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Free Machine Translations of Korean Patents Now Available from KIPO |
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As of January 3, 2014, the Korea Intellectual Property Rights Information Service ("KIPRIS") began providing a free Korean-to-English machine translation service of published and registered Korean patents and utility models. KIPRIS is an online intellectual property information search service provided by the Korean Intellectual Property Office ("KIPO"). KIPRIS covers all aspects of Korean IP information including patents, utility models, designs, and trademarks. |
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The free machine translation service can be accessed from the KIPRIS website at http://eng.kipris.or.kr/enghome/main.jsp. The free Korean-to-English machine translation service will make it much easier to access Korean patents, utility models and published applications in a more cost-efficient manner. The KIPRIS website, available in both Korean and English, is user-friendly, has up-to-date information (since it is regularly updated by KIPO), and uploads searched content in a matter of seconds. |
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As is the case with other machine translation services, e.g., from the Japan Patent Office, there are limitations to machine translations. Since the KIPRIS machine translation service translates the Korean text into English word for word, the quality of the machine translation depends on the drafting quality of the reference in Korean. Thus, a machine translation may not be sufficient to fully understand the disclosure of a Korean patent reference. If a higher quality English translation is needed, it would be better to utilize in-person translation services, such as provided by Kim & Chang, to translate all or portions of the target Korean patent. |
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