Founded in 1999, WIPS is Korea¡¯s first online global patent information service. As indicated by the company¡¯s name, Worldwide Intellectual Property Service, the company is Korea¡¯s leader in patent and industrial information search and analysis.
The company provides a wide range of services in intellectual property (IP) management, including search, consulting and
education.
WIPS offers search services for prior art, technology information, patentability, invalidity/validity, infringement/clearance, FTO, patent landscapes, Trademark and Design.
As part of its IP consulting package, WIPS offers IP analysis, R&D strategy consulting, and technology commercialization.
For IP education, WIPS provides customizes training that is tailored to the needs of the customers for its online products.
The company¡¯s online products which form the core of its business are WIPS Global Advanced and Patbridge. WIPS Global Advanced is a Webbased service that provides search and analysis functions of patent information all over the world, allowing the user to not only general patent information, but also families, citations and other related information.
In addition to the main search function, the solution provides the SmartAngle service for Chart Analysis, Cross Matrix and Classification, and the Theme Analysis service that can perform in- depth analysis on families, claims and citations.
The Distributed Information Linkage System, the culmination of many years of search and operational experience, allows the user to perform oneclick access to related patents without a drawn-out search process.
WIPS is a partner of the World Intellectual Property Organization and is Asia the sole participant of the Access to Specialized Patent Information (ASPI) program.
WIPS Global Advanced has allowed the company to develop more specialized and localized products and services as well.
For example, the company¡¯s Patbridge Web-based service provides full-text information on Korean patents to Japanese users.
A translation system that is designed to eliminate common errors as well as strict quality control and monitoring by an experienced staff provides a convenient access to Korean patent information in Japanese via a convenient user interface.
Founded in 1999, WIPS became the first Korean company to offer global patent information search service via its dedicated service site (www.wipson.com).
The company has been selected as an information analysis specialist by the Korean government and received the ISO 27001 certification for information security management system standards in 2010.
The company¡¯s online service has been selected as a ¡°World Class Product of Korea¡± two years in a row since 2011.
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