Ten Steps to Protecting your Brands, Trademarks, and other IP in the Korean Market

I just participated as a panelist for the United States Commercial Service Trade Winds-Asia Seminar for U.S. companies considering investing and/or exporting to Korea, China, the Philippines, Japan, and Taiwan. The Seminar brought together over 150 U.S. investors and exporters of products and services. The U.S. Commercial Service did a wonderful job bringing together some of the leading experts on doing business in Korea. I was impressed. At the event, the most frequent question I was asked was related to

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Korean Business/Service Marks Protection under the Unfair Competition Prevention and Trade Secret Protection Act

Supreme Court Decision 2008Do5897 delivered on January 30, 2009 【Violation of the Unfair Competition Prevention and Trade Secret Protection Act】 Translation of Official Court Summary  The appearance of a particular singer and the unique actions of others are intangible and variable features close to an impression or image have little function as a fixed mark that differentiates a matter from another matter. If the particular appearance and action is to be regarded as a mark of a business and if

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