SINCE 1997
DAEILPAT
Daeil Int'l Patent & Trademark Law Firm

Korean IP(Industrial Property) Laws

 

• Patent Act 

• Enforcement decree of the Patent Act

• Utility Model Act

• Enforcement decree of the Utility Model Act

• Design protection Act

• Enforcement decree of the Design protection Act

• Trademark Act

• Enforcement decree of the Trademark Act

• Unfair competition prevention and trade secret protection Act

• Enforcement decree of the Unfair competition prevention and trade secret protection Act

• Act on the layout-designs of semiconductor integrated circuits

• Enforcement decree of the Act on the layout-designs of semiconductor integrated circuits

 

 

IP Treaties

 

Korea has joined various international endeavors for more improved IPR protection by becoming a member of the following treaties;

 

• Convention establishing the World Intellectual Property Organization (1967)

• Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property (1980)

• Patent Cooperation Treaty (1984)

• Convention for the Protection of Producers of Phonograms against Unauthorized Duplication of Their Phonograms (1987)

• Budapest Treaty on the International Recognition of the Deposit of Microorganisms for the Purposes of Patent Procedure (1988)

• WTO Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (1995)

• Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works (1996)

• Strasbourg Agreement Concerning the International Patent Classification (1998)

• Nice Agreement Concerning the International Classification of Goods and Services for the Purposes of the Registration of Marks (1998)

• Trademark Law Treaty (2002)

• International Convention for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants (2002)

• Protocol Relating to the Madrid Agreement Concerning the International Registration of Marks (2003)

• WIPO Copyright Treaty (2004)

• Vienna Agreement Establishing an International Classification of the Figurative Elements of Marks (2011)

• Locarno Agreement Establishing an International Classification for Industrial Designs (2011)