"A New 30 Years Together with Young People"... Ministry of Intellectual Property Holds Ceremony Marking the 30th Anniversary of the Korea Intellectual Property Rights Information Service (KIPRIS)

[Financial News] The Ministry of Intellectual Property and the Korean Institute of Patent Information will host a KIPRIS DAY event on the afternoon of the 22nd at Drium Forest Hall in Gangnam-gu, Seoul, to mark the 30th anniversary of the launch of the KIPRIS intellectual property information search service.
 Held under the slogan "30 Years of KIPRIS: Finding Ideas and Opening the Future," the event will be attended by Kim Yong-sun, commissioner of the Ministry of Intellectual Property, and Kang Byung-sam, president of the Korean Institute of Patent Information, along with young users and about 50 officials from the intellectual property information services industry. Participants will review KIPRIS's achievements over the past 30 years and explore development strategies for the next 30 years in step with the era of artificial intelligence (AI).
 KIPRIS is a leading public service that allows anyone to search and view approximately 150 million pieces of intellectual property information collected by the Ministry of Intellectual Property from 29 countries at home and abroad, free of charge.
 At the day's main event, the talk concert titled "KIPRIS Meets the Youth of Tomorrow" will bring together Kim Yong-sun and six young users from various fields, including researchers, startup founders, university students and patent attorneys. Drawing on their firsthand experiences, the young participants will propose introducing AI natural-language search, which would allow beginners unfamiliar with specialized search queries to find patents using everyday language. They will also suggest a feature that summarizes and explains complex patent documents in terms accessible to users. In addition, they will share practical feedback on expanding hands-on IP education and broadening access to intellectual property data for the private sector.
 The event will also feature awards for individuals who contributed to KIPRIS's development and outstanding participants in the Korea Intellectual Property Search Challenge, held for six weeks from July. A total of 370 people took part in the challenge and found 1,923 intellectual property rights. It was recognized as an opportunity for the public to experience firsthand that intellectual property exists everywhere in daily life, extending beyond laboratories and companies.
 The subsequent appointment ceremony for the KIPRIS Public Evaluation Panel will commission 15 people, including patent attorneys, researchers and students. The panel members will preview the AI-based search service currently under development after its selection as a project under the Ministry of Science and ICT's Public AX Project. They will offer various suggestions from the users' perspective to improve the service.
 Kim said, "I will actively support young people's creative ideas and challenges so that they can lead to new value and opportunities through intellectual property. We will actively introduce AI natural-language search by reflecting the voices of young users in the service, and continue developing KIPRIS into a service through which anyone can easily find and use ideas by expanding access to overseas intellectual property information."
 Meanwhile, the combination of generative AI and large language models (LLMs) has already become an irreversible trend in the global patent data market. Major patent authorities, including the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and the European Patent Office (EPO), have also introduced AI-powered systems to automate prior-art searches, significantly reducing examination wait times. They continue to evolve into intelligent platforms that support private companies in analyzing patent infringement risks.
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