A. Substantial Examination
B. Laying-open of Applications
C. Preferential Examination
D. Amendments
1. General Aspects
2. Possible Periods for Amendments
a) Voluntary Amendments
b) In Response to Official Action
c) In Response to Final Rejection
3. Extent of Amendments
E. Preliminary Rejection Notice
1. Types of Rejection Reasons
a) Industrial Applicability
b) Lack of Novelty
c) Inventive Step or Non-Obviousness
d) Insufficient Disclosure
e) Lack of Unity of Invention
f) Use of Improper and Inconsistent Terminology
g) Lack of Reference Numerals in Claims
2. Interpretation of Rejection Reasons
a) Lacking Novelty or Obviousness
b) Insufficient Disclosure or Formal Defects
c) Rejection of Only Some of Claims
3. Response to be Filed
a) Argument
i) Analysis
of Examiner's Reasons for Rejection
ii) Comparison
of Claims with Citations
iii)
Assertion
of Unexpected Effects
b) Amendment
i) Reducing
Scope of Claims
ii) Modifying
or Deleting Claims
iii)
Explaining Differences Over
Prior Art
iv) New Matter
F. Decision for Patent Grant
G. Options after Receiving Final Rejection
H.
Registration
I. Publication and Opposition
J. Duration
A. Appeal and Trial
B. Types of Trials in Industrial Property Tribunal of Korean Intellectual Property Office
1. Trial to Confirm Scope of Patent Right
2. Trial for Invalidation of Patent Right
3. Trial for Correction
4. Trial for Invalidation of Correction
5. Trial for Granting Non-exclusive License
6. Trial against Examiner's Final Rejection and Revocation
7. Invalidation Trial of Registration for Extension of Term of Patent Right (Article 134 of the Patent Act)
8. Trial against Decision to Dismiss Application for Registration of Utility Model (Article 54.2 of Revised Korean Utility Model Act)
C. Re-examination before Trial
D. Appeal to Patent Court
E. Prohibition of Double Jeopardy
F. Retrial System
