Trademark Similarity Case: SNOW PERFUME
A trademark identifies commercial origin and helps prevent confusion. The comparison therefore ordinarily considers the mark as a whole, including its appearance, sound and meaning.
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Trademark Similarity Case: Whotel
Service-mark similarity turns on appearance, sound and meaning and the overall impression on ordinary consumers and traders. The issue is whether they may confuse the source of the services.
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Assess the marks objectively, as a whole and through separate observation of appearance, sound and meaning. The relevant question is whether their use for the designated goods may cause confusion about commercial origin.
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For marks used on the same goods, appearance, sound and meaning are considered together to assess whether consumers or traders may confuse their source.
Read articleIP Lecture for NH Seed’s Second Cohort: Announcement
Yongduck Kim has been invited to deliver IP training for NH Seed's second cohort. The lecture will explain the importance of protecting technology and the patent registration process for current and prospective entrepreneurs addressing challenges in agriculture through agtech.
Read articleTrademark Similarity Case: Ritz Plaza Hotel
The similarity assessment considers appearance, sound and meaning against the overall impression the marks make on ordinary consumers and traders.
Read articleColumn: Preparing a Technology Business Plan for Special Listing
As an external technology-evaluation advisor for KOSDAQ listings, Yongduck Kim has seen businesses struggle to prepare technology business plans. This article examines how to approach that work.
Read articleTechnology-Based Special Listing: How Many Patents Are Needed?
As interest in Korea's technology-based listing route grows, clients often ask how many patents they need. In consulting work, I explain that a larger portfolio is not always more advantageous—a point some find surprising coming from a patent attorney.
Read articleDesign Start-Up Package: Individual Mentoring Announcement
DSP 1:1 Mentoring, organized by Seoul Design Startup Center, provides expert mentoring for pre- and early-stage entrepreneurs. On August 11 (Fri), patent attorney Yongduck Kim will participate as a mentor.
Read articleYongduck Kim Delivers IP Training for New Content Enterprise Support Center Companies
Metaverse, AI and VR technologies are bringing established IP categories into closer contact. Infringement issues and disputes in markets such as the United States and China underscore the importance of an IP strategy for Korea's convergent content industries.
Read articleDetecting Aircraft Engine Anomalies with Autoencoders: Honeywell Patent Analysis
An autoencoder is a neural network trained through unsupervised learning to encode data and reconstruct an output as close as possible to the input.
Read articleSmart Factories and Robot Prognostics: ABB Patent Analysis
Smart factories are a prominent application of Fourth Industrial Revolution technologies. Predictive maintenance helps optimize maintenance policies, reduce costs and improve equipment availability and reliability. Prognostics is one of the approaches attracting attention in this field.
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