www.ABBYY.com Background Patents are not a new trend nowadays. Businessmen all around the world protect their Trade Marks (TMs) with patents from illegal use of their inventions and unpleasant consequences of such use. Also modern patents help to indicate the origin of the product, to guarantee its high quality in some way, and to promote technological innovation and industrial development on the whole. Korean businessmen also enjoy the benefits and patent their inventions. The Patent Institute was established in 1946 in Korea. Today the organization which deals with patents there is the Korean Intellectual Property Office (KIPO). But since that time the number of TMs has multiplied greatly and the patent application procedure also suffered many changes, though it is not perfect yet. The challenge Nowadays a patent application consists of a specification and drawings of the product. The documents are submitted in different formats: PDF, XML, TIFF or JPEG-files. The body of the specification has references to figure numbers in the drawings but there are no hyperlinks between them. It is quite difficult and time consuming to process and examine numerous application sets using an ordinary OCR: figure numbers in the drawings in most cases are treated as part of the drawing and only 10-30% of them are extracted. The whole process drags on and turns to be too complex both for the patent authority and the applicants. To find a reasonable and the most suitable solution the KIPO consulted the most experienced expert in OCR technologies in Korea – company ReTIA. Project ReTIA has over 10 years of experience in the market and numerous world- known customers, such as Sindoh, Canon, HYUNDAI, LG, DAUM, DOOSAN, HonestVision and others. ReTIA expert team offered ABBYY FlexiCapture 10 as the solution – the next generation of intelligent, accurate and highly About KOREAN INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY OFFICE (KIPO) KIPO is the governmental authority in charge of intellectual property in Korea. The mission of the organization is to create high-quality intellectual property; to commercialize patented technologies; to protect intellectual property rights both domestically and internationally; to foster experts and manpower in the field of intellectual property; and to disseminate patent information. Address: Republic of Korea Cheongsa-ro, Seo-gu, Daejeon, 302-701 Government Complex Daejeon Building 4, 189 Tel: 82-42-481-5208 Fax: 82-42-472-7140 E-mail: [email protected]http://www.kipo.go.kr About ReTIA Located at Guro, Seoul, ReTIA is nowadays a leader in OCR, document capture and form processing solutions in Korea. The company has over 10 years of experience in the fields and numerous world- known strategic partners as Sindoh, Fuji Xerox, Canon, CyberLogitec, INITECH, Pronet Soft and others, and customers among finance, government organizations, manufacturers and IT, here are some of them: Canon, HYUNDAI, LG, DAUM, DOOSAN, HonestVision, OMAX, TAMTUS, POSCO, Framas, NH Bank, ETRI and others. ReTIA Co., Ltd. Address: #506, Daerung Post Tower 3, 182-4, Guro-dong, Guro-gu, Seoul, 152-746, Republic of Korea Phone: +82-70-4323-3390 Fax: +82-2-6280-2859 E-mail: [email protected]http://www.retia.co.kr/ http://www.kipo.go.kr
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Background Patents are not a new trend nowadays. Businessmen all around the world protect their Trade Marks (TMs) with patents from illegal use of their inventions and unpleasant consequences of such use. Also modern patents help to indicate the origin of the product, to guarantee its high quality in some way, and to promote technological innovation and industrial development on the whole.
Korean businessmen also enjoy the benefits and patent their inventions. The Patent Institute was established in 1946 in Korea. Today the organization which deals with patents there is the Korean Intellectual Property Office (KIPO). But since that time the number of TMs has multiplied greatly and the patent application procedure also suffered many changes, though it is not perfect yet.
The challengeNowadays a patent application consists of a specification and drawings of the product. The documents are submitted in different formats: PDF, XML, TIFF or JPEG-files. The body of the specification has references to figure numbers in the drawings but there are no hyperlinks between them. It is quite difficult and time consuming to process and examine numerous application sets using an ordinary OCR: figure numbers in the drawings in most cases are treated as part of the drawing and only 10-30% of them are extracted.
The whole process drags on and turns to be too complex both for the patent authority and the applicants. To find a reasonable and the most suitable solution the KIPO consulted the most experienced expert in OCR technologies in Korea – company ReTIA.
ProjectReTIA has over 10 years of experience in the market and numerous world-known customers, such as Sindoh, Canon, HYUNDAI, LG, DAUM, DOOSAN, HonestVision and others. ReTIA expert team offered ABBYY FlexiCapture 10 as the solution – the next generation of intelligent, accurate and highly
About KOREAN INTELLECTUAL
PROPERTY OFFICE (KIPO) KIPO is the governmental authority in charge of intellectual property in Korea. The mission of the organization is to create high-quality intellectual property; to commercialize patented technologies; to protect intellectual property rights both domestically and internationally; to foster experts and manpower in the field of intellectual property; and to disseminate patent information.
Address: Republic of KoreaCheongsa-ro, Seo-gu, Daejeon, 302-701Government Complex Daejeon Building 4, 189Tel: 82-42-481-5208Fax: 82-42-472-7140E-mail: [email protected] http://www.kipo.go.kr
About ReTIALocated at Guro, Seoul, ReTIA is nowadays a leader in OCR, document capture and form processing solutions in Korea. The company has over 10 years of experience in the fields and numerous world-known strategic partners as Sindoh, Fuji Xerox, Canon, CyberLogitec, INITECH, Pronet Soft and others, and customers among finance, government organizations, manufacturers and IT, here are some of them: Canon, HYUNDAI, LG, DAUM, DOOSAN, HonestVision, OMAX, TAMTUS, POSCO, Framas, NH Bank, ETRI and others.
ReTIA Co., Ltd.Address: #506, Daerung Post Tower 3, 182-4, Guro-dong, Guro-gu, Seoul, 152-746, Republic of Korea Phone: +82-70-4323-3390 Fax: +82-2-6280-2859 E-mail: [email protected] http://www.retia.co.kr/http://www.kipo.go.kr
scalable data capture and document processing software.Document processing is held in the following way: both specifications and drawings in the original formats are loaded into the system, which classifies them automatically. All the data including texts, pictures and tables are recognized and analyzed.On the next step FlexiLayout Technology – one of the components of the system – accurately extracts all the figure numbers.
The data are verified and the information is exported into XML-files for further processing and storage.
Distributed architecture of the solution with two Quad-Core Processing Stations ensures high volume document capture.
The ResultsUsing ReTIA Solution based on ABBYY FlexiCapture software, the KIPO greatly reduced time for patent examination and improved customer service, making it better, easier and faster for both parties. The single solution for processing patent drawings in different original formats automatically processes 42 000 pages per day with the least possible human control.
ReTIA once again confirmed the high quality of their solutions and deserved trust of the governmental organization – Korean Intellectual Property Office, and Korean businessmen got another stimulus to patent their products, as the process is quick and easy now.
About ABBYYABBYY is a leading provider of document recognition, data capture, and linguistic technologies and services. Its products include the ABBYY FineReader line of optical character recognition (OCR) applications, ABBYY FlexiCapture line of data capture solutions, ABBYY Lingvo dictionary software, and development tools. ABBYY Language Services provides comprehensive linguistic solutions to corporate customers. Paperintensive organizations from all over the world use ABBYY solutions to automate time- and labour-consuming tasks and to streamline business processes. ABBYY products are used in large-scale government projects such as those of Australian Taxation Office, Lithuanian Tax Inspectorate, Ministry of Education of Russia, Ministry of Education of Ukraine, and Montgomery County Government of the USA. Companies that license ABBYY technologies include BancTec, Canon, EMC/Captiva, Hewlett-Packard, Microsoft, NewSoft, Notable Solutions, Samsung Electronics and more. ABBYY OCR applications are shipped with equipment from the world’s top manufacturers such as Epson, Fujitsu, Fuji Xerox, Microtek, Panasonic, Plustek, Toshiba, and Xerox. ABBYY is headquartered in Moscow, Russia, with offices in Germany, the United States, Ukraine, the UK, Japan and Taiwan. For more information, visit www.ABBYY.com
