The Korea Intellectual Property Rights Information Service (“KIPRIS”) began providing a free Korean-to-English machine translation service of published and registered Korean patents and utility models.

This free Korean-to-English machine translation service will make it much easier to access Korean patents, utility models and published applications in a more cost-efficient manner. The KIPRIS website, available in both Korean and English, is user-friendly, has up-to-date information (since it is regularly updated by KIPO), and uploads searched content in a matter of seconds.

The free machine translation service can be accessed from the KIPRIS website at http://eng.kipris.or.kr/enghome/main.jsp.

By Akshatha Karthik