On the 31th the Intellectual Property Trial and Appeal Board announced that they are implementing revised administrative act in the case of determined rejection application that applied for collective trial seeing the refusal appeal as the priority appeal reviewing the possibility of granting the right in the early trial. Collective trial refers to a system of collectively judging application toward the application of multiple patent in relation to one product including service in the desired time of the applicant.

In this revision the trial on invalidation of application(application that received new patent classification (Z)) related to 4th industrial revolution such as big data cloud computing are included as well as artificial intelligence and trial to confirm scope of rights. In addition the grounds for a meeting of all chief judges to discuss and decide on major issues such as the improvement of the legal system related to the trial and the establishment of new standards for cases of high social interest.

Other than that when judging the cancelled case of the Intellectual Property Trial and Appeal Boards judging decision in the patent court the content for convenience of customer was included which is to fully insure the parties chance of submitting opinion before closing the trial by notifying the closing period of the trial.

This revision is significant in that it introduced a system to solve conflicts over advanced technologies in the era of the 4th Industrial revolution such as digital innovation convergence and complexity.

Jae-woo Lee president of Intellectual Property Trial and Appeal Board said In order for the Intellectual Property Trial and Appeal Board to fully protect core technologies in the digital transition era it is most important to arrange the prompt precise and consistent judgment standards. and added We will strive to be prompt and precise Intellectual Property Trial and Appeal Board.