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Intro
The patent system added the fuel of interests to the fire of genius. This is a statement that was written
in the entrance of the US Patent and Trademark Office. This is also a saying presented by Abraham
Lincoln, who was the 16th president of the United states and also was an inventor. This is a voice to
penetrate the accurate essence of patents. The Unites States established a Patent law to assure the
patent rights from the nation’s earliest days, and have been operating it ever since. Thomas Jefferson,
who was the first director of the patent office, left the saying “Those who lighted their own candles with
candles do not darken themselves and gain light by themselves.” Patent system in the Unites States
has driven infinite passion of creativity. As a result, the Unites States grew up to become the superpower,
casting Europe behind. Of course, protection of patents started in the United Kingdom, before the Unites
States. The United Kingdom introduced a system to grant letter patents to secure the main technologies
from overseas in 1623. The lead the Industrial revolution and it resulted in growing the United Kingdom
into a powerful nation.
In the 21th century, the world is not fighting over territories with guns and swords, but it is fighting over
intellectual properties without gunshots. The winner takes it all in intellectual properties’ war. In 2016
Dabos Forum, the experts pointed ‘Strong and flexible intellectual property system’ as one of the four
conditions to become a winner in the fourth Industrial revolution. The fourth Industrial revolution focuses
on plants using soft power and intellectualization of products. Intangible properties are more important
than tangible properties in soft power. For these reasons, competition of the nations to take the lead of
the 4th Industrial revolution is getting more fierce. However, compares to quantity of intellectual properties
created, quality of the properties in Korea is not living up to the expectations. Protection and usage of the
intellectual properties are also deficient.
People say that this is a result of running industrial policies that we have been pursuing since 1970s. We
have been implementing ‘weak intellectual properties’ policy to protect the following companies who are
trying to use similar technologies, rather than to protect the leading companies. However, in the era of the
4th industrial revolution, change in existing intellectual property system is needed. The answer to this change
can be suggested in the ‘7th international intellectual properties and industrial security conference’, held in
Chosun Hotel, Sogonddong, Seoul, in May 17th(Wed), 18th(Thurs), hosted by Financial news and Patent
Office. In this conference, we will be able to hear wise opinions from overseas and domestic experts about
strategies to realize Korea as a power nation of intellectual properties, and developing methods. Now that
we have prepared the light ofcommunicating intellectual properties, fueling it is your duty.
Information
Title : The 7th International Intellectual Property & Industrial Security Conference
Theme : Conditions to win the 4th Industrial Revolution, Economics focused on intellectual properties
*Sub Theme 1 : Intellectual properties are the driving force of developing the Korean economics
*Sub Theme 2 : Monopoly and antitrust of intellectual properties
Time : Wednesday, May 17 ~ Thursday, May 18, 2017
Venue : Grand Ballroom, Westin Chosun Hotel, Seoul (1F)
Host : The Financial News, Korean Intellectual Property Office
Supervisor : Korea Intellectual Property Society, Korea Intellectual Property Protection Agency
Sponsor : Presidential Council on Intellectual Property, Korea Patent Attorneys Association,
General Federation of Korea Intellectual Property,
Korean Association for Industrial Technology Security,
Korea Invention Promotion Association, The Korean Association for Industrial Security,
Parliamentary Advisory Committee for IP Hub Korea