By: Sean Hayes
Please register all of your trademarks and other intellectual property in Korea. Yes, your “international filing” is not good enough. You must, before engaging in any additional consideration of doing business in Korea register your IP in Korea. Don’t even read further. Contact us and we will happily advise a good patent/trademark agent to utilize. No need to get a law firm to do this for you – the agents are, typically, adequate for most non-complex filings.
After registering all your IP in Korea, please follow, at a minimum this simply advise.
> Do a Comprehensive Intellectual Property Audit. Form a team to audit all your intellectual property including your patents, trademarks, servicemarks, books, manuals, videos, software, know-how, and trade secrets. The purpose of this Audit is to determine if all of your IP is registered and properly safeguarded. This is discussed more at: Protecting Your Intellectual Property in Korea. Register if you find additional IP.
> Educate Korean Customs
A few professionals in Korea, including professionals at IPG, do presentations to Customs informing Customs agents on how to spot counterfeit products. If you don’t do this good luck. Customs is overburdened and are unlikely to be able to determine a decent fake from real a product.
> Engage Actively Customs and the Prosecution
Speaks for itself. If you are no on-the-ground in Korea, get a local company to assist.
Read more >> https://www.thekoreanlawblog.com/2013/07/enforcing-your-trademark-rights-in.html
