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.
Search and document retrieval
Legal status information
- Retrieving information on licenses in KIPRIS (PDF, 603 KB)
- Searching Korean file wrapper information in KIPO's OPD platform (PDF, 1.6 MB)
- Searching information on trial proceedings in KIPRIS (PDF, 760 KB)
- Retrieving detailed English legal status information from KIPRIS (PDF, 633 KB)
- Updated :Retrieving information on fee payment from KIPRIS (PDF, 353 KB)
- Updated :Finding cited and citing documents on KIPRIS (PDF, 495 KB)
- Updated: Retrieving patent term extension information from KIPRIS (PDF, 992 KMB)
- Updated: Finding information on divisional applications in KIPRIS (PDF, 416 KB)
- Updated: Retrieving information on ownership changes in KIPRIS (PDF, 610 KB)
- "Super citations": basic search tool for cited documents in KIPRIS (PDF, 535 KB)
Searching trade marks and designs
Searching information on pharmaceutical patents