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2022 Issue 3

PATENT Higher Scrutiny of Employee Invention Remuneration Cases Recent decisions show that Korean Courts are beginning to review employee invention compensation cases under a heightened level of scrutiny. Read more Who Will Win the Race to Lead the Solid-State Battery Market? All-solid-state batteries are widely expected to become the predominant next-generation power source for electric vehicles. Read more KIPO Adopts New ST.26 Standards for Sequence Listings in Patent Applications The ST.26 is a new standard for the presentation of nucleotide and amino acid sequence listings in patent applications proposed by the World Intellectual Property Organization. Read more Proposal to Designate Additional National Core Technologies and Set Sunset Periods for NCT Designations The Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy announced a proposed amendment to the Public Notification on the Designation of National Core Technology with two significant changes. Read more

TRADEMARK KIPO's New Guidelines for Examining Trademark Applications for Virtual Goods The new Guidelines indicate that virtual goods are presumptively different from real world goods and virtual goods previously described as downloadable image files. Read more

EDITORS John J. KIM & Inchan Andrew KWON

NEWS Kim & Chang Ranked Again as a Top Law Firm in Korea – MIP IP Stars 2022 Kim & Chang Named in IAM Patent 1000: The World's Leading Patent Professionals 2022 APAA Webinar on "When AI Invents"

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