Introduction

5T represents clients for proceeding trials before IPTAB(the Intellectual Property Trial and Appeal Board) in the process of and/or after registration of various IP rights. Frequently filed and disputed trials before IPTAB are trials against ruling of refusal or revocation of KIPO (appeals against 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 invalidate 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 invalidating the registration based on which the infringement is claimed. a Patent

Trials for confirming the scope of rights are filed when an owner of an IP right or an interesting 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 may be used as crucial evidence in the various IP infringement-related lawsuits.

Some patent attorneys of 5T are former examiners of the KIPO or former judges of IPTAB, some attorneys also have received a PhD in the relevant field and they represent our clients more effectively for trials.