IPTAB Trials
Overview
BAE, KIM & LEE IP effectively represents clients for proceeding trials before the Korean Intellectual Property Trial and Appeal Board (“IPTAB”) in the process of and/or after a registration of various IP rights. Frequently filed and disputed trials before the IPTAB are appeals against the Korean Intellectual Property Office (“KIPO”)’s final rejection, invalidation trials and trials for confirming the scope of rights.
An appeal against the KIPO’s final rejection is a trial to dispute the KIPO’s final rejections of applications for patents/utility models/trademarks/designs. Applicants may have an opportunity to actively dispute the KIPO examiners’ rejection grounds and eventually register their desired patents/utility models/trademarks/designs.
An invalidation trial is filed to nullify a patent/utility model/trademark/design registration when the registration has been issued against the relevant laws. This can be effective when a party defends itself more actively from other’s intellectual property right infringement claim through nullifying the registration based on which the infringement is claimed.
Trials for confirming the scope of rights are sought when an owner of an IP right or an interested party wishes to confirm the scope of protection of a patent/utility model/trademark/design registration. The IPTAB’s judgment on the scope of IP right might be used as a crucial evidence for determining infringement in the various IP infringement-related lawsuits.
BAE, KIM & LEE IP has accumulated its expertise through many years of experience in filing, prosecution and trials on behalf of clients, and is able to provide services that can fully satisfy the needs of the clients. Furthermore, we have participated in IP infringement cases and these experiences provide us with more efficiency and effectiveness when we deal with invalidation trials and trials for confirming the scope of IP rights as they are closely related to IP infringements.
BAE, KIM & LEE IP’s diverse experience in all areas of services related to intellectual property rights including filing, prosecution, trials and litigations makes it possible to fully assist our clients with the best protection of their IP rights as well as IP related disputes.
