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K2E-PAT (Korean to English Automatic Machine Translation) service available via the EPO

The EPO's East Asian patent information team can obtain machine-translated English versions of Korean patent and utility model documents from KIPRIS (Korea Industrial Property Rights Information Service) on behalf of users.

The following documents are available in machine-translated English via the K2E-PAT service on KIPRIS:

• Korean unexamined patent publications (A) from 1983 to date,
• Korean examined patent publications (B1) from 1979 to date 
• Korean unexamined utility model publications (U) from 1998 to date,
• Korean registered utility models (Y1) from 1979 to date.
• International patent publications (PCT) (A) from 1985 to date
• International utility model publications (PCT) (U) from 1986 to date

How to order

Send your order to the EPO's East Asian patent information team at asiainfo@epo.org or by fax to +43 1 52126 4197.

Make sure your order contains the following:

• the number of the Korean document(s) for which you need a machine translation
• some additional information on the document(s) (dates, IPC classes, etc.) so we can be sure of finding the correct document for you
• your name and full invoicing address

Usually, your queries will be answered within one or two working days, and in urgent cases, within a few hours. You will receive the requested machine translation in PDF format by e-mail.

The price per machine-translated document is EUR 23.

For further details, please contact us by telephone at +43 1 52126 4545.