Searching in databases - Korea

Tips & tricks for searching in databases

Easy, step-by-step instructions on how to use official Korean databases. Click on the links below to download the respective search guides.

Number search and document retrieval

• Retrieving Korean full text data from KIPRIS (PDF, 622 KB)
• "Patent of my concern" - free monitoring tool for Korean publications in KIPRIS (PDF, 723 KB)
  Searching Korean prior art using the ‘cross lingual retrieval’ function in KIPRIS (PDF, 262 KB)
• NEW: Searching information on similar patents in KIPRIS (PDF, 467 KB)

English machine translations

• Retrieving free English machine translations in KIPRIS (PDF, 650 KB)

Legal status information

• Searching Korean file wrapper information in KIPO's OPD platform (PDF, 234 KB)
• Searching information on trial proceedings in KIPRIS (PDF, 542 KB) 
• Retrieving detailed English legal status information from KIPRIS (PDF, 363 KB)
• Retrieving information on fee payment from KIPRIS (PDF, 203 KB)
• Finding cited documents on KIPRIS (PDF, 457 KB)
• Retrieving patent term extension information from KIPRIS (PDF, 471 KB)
• Finding information on divisional applications in KIPRIS (PDF, 410 KB)
• Retrieving information on inventors, applicants and representatives in KIPRIS (PDF, 158 KB)
• "Super citations": basic search tool for cited documents in KIPRIS (PDF, 447 KB)

Searching trade marks and designs

• Searching for trade mark information on KIPRIS (PDF, 531 KB)
• Searching for design information on KIPRIS (PDF, 515 KB)

Searching information on pharmaceutical patents

• Searching in the "green list" for linkage patents (PDF, 160 KB)