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  1. Which documents are required for a patent application in Korea?
  2. What are the required documents for claiming a priority right under the Paris Convention?
  3. What should I do for entering into a Korean national phase from PCT application?
  4. What is the general power of attorney (POA) in Korea?
  5. What are the criteria on the novelty required for the grant of patent in Korea?
  6. Can we defer the request for the substantive examination of the patent application?
  7. What is the cost of patent application in Korea?
  8. Please tell me something about the on-line electronic filing system in Korea?
  9. What kind of issues should we be aware of for filing the application in Korea?
  10. I heard that Korea has a new utility model registration system which is similar to Japanese system.
  11. Please explain about a dual application system between patent and new utility model in Korea. What are the merits of the dual application system?
  12. Please tell me the process for dual application?
  13. Please tell me about the time constraints about amendment?
  14. To what degree can I make an amendment to the filed application? What does it happen if I include new matters to the specification when the amendment is filed?
  15. When is a patent application laid-open to the public in Korea? Is it possible for an applicant to request that his application should be laid open earlier than the schedule? In case of a third party¡¯s "infringement" of the pending application, are there any legal measures for protection?
  16. Are there any strategies for me to have a third party¡¯s application to be rejected during the examination?
  17. Is it possible to accelerate the substantive examination of a patent application in Korea? In other words, is there a preferential examination system in Korea?
  18. Which patent applications are considered to need "urgent processing (preferential examination)" as described by Presidential Decree?
  19. What is the application procedure for preferential examination and its effect?
  20. What about the Notification of Reasons for Refusal?
  21. Please advise me how to respond to the Notification of Reasons for Refusal.
  22. Are there any legal constraints when the claims are constructed from the detailed description of the specification under the KPA?
  23. Do they allow functional claims in Korea?
  24. In the office action, the examiner requested me to put reference numerals employed in the drawings for each element of claims. How do I respond to such a rejection?
  25. Is there any standard for the Examiner to evaluate the inventiveness of the invention in Korea?
  26. Please comment on the combination of prior arts.
  27. If a patent is granted to the one, corresponding to the Korean application, elsewhere in the world, will it affect favorably for the grant in Korea?
  28. I made a lot of money by applying the pending patent. Can a commercial success be considered favorable in judging the inventiveness?
  29. Is an interview with the examiner allowed? Is it possible to know which claims can be accepted or not at the interview?
  30. What is the meaning of a single inventive concept in Korea?
  31. When can a divisional application be filed to a pending patent application?
  32. Posterior to the allowance of a patent registration from an Examiner, may the applicant revise the specifications and/or the claims?
  33. Tell me about the term of a patent right in Korea. What is the reference date for the calculation of annuity?
  34. Is there any way to reinstate a patent which was abandoned by negligence to pay an annuity?
  35. What kind of license rights can be established to a Korean patent?
  36. Is it possible for me to file an opposition to the grant of patent to other¡¯s application in Korea? When and how?
  37. What should the applicant do if final rejection is given by an examiner? What if the rejection was made only to some portions of claims?
  38. What is the meaning of the reexamination before a trial?
  39. Please explain about the trial procedure at the Industrial Property Tribunal (IPT)? Is there oral hearing as well as documentary examination?
  40. When a patentee is a foreigner, can the patent be properly protected in Korea? If an infringer is Korean, is there any discrimination to the foreign patentee like me?
  41. What are the conditions for patent infringement by "doctrine of equivalents" in Korea?
  42. Is a contributory infringement acknowledged under the Korean Patent Act (KPA)?
  43. If my patent is infringed by a third person, what can I do as a patentee in Korea?
  44. What is the Trial for Confirmation-of-Scope under the KPA?
  45. What are the procedures of patent infringement suit?
  46. How much compensation can the patent holder expect for the damage from the infringer? If infringement is done intentionally, can we ask for exemplary damages?