WIPS provides international patent, trademark, copyright, and industrial design search and analysis services designed for professionals in the legal, risk management, corporate, government, IP enforcement, and academic markets. WIPS has over 400 professionals including patent attorneys, technology experts, and advisers covering all technology areas. WIPS currently has offices in the U.S., Korea, Japan, Singapore, and India.

WIPS conducts PCT, trademark, and industrial design searches for KIPO. 98% of the prior art submitted by WIPS has been cited by KIPO Examiners. WIPS can identify which individuals and companies are infringing your client’s trademarks and patents. WIPS'​ IP consulting services include patentability, validity/invalidity, and freedom-to-operate searches, patent landscape studies, competitor analysis, and patent infringement research.

WIPS specializes in full-text Asian patent searching, both offline and online. WIPS conducts full-text patent searches in native home country languages, such as in Korean, Japanese, Chinese, etc. This is beneficial since our searchers know the keywords and synonyms unique to each country. Simply using the query from the US patent search is not sufficient for Asian patent searching. Our online worldwide patent search tool, WIPS Global, contains full-text Korean, Japanese and Chinese patent searching. Our WIPS Global software is very accurate and reliable, since WIPS has over 40 software developers and Asian and European translators who frequently update WIPS Global.

In 2016, WIPS had 65% of the online patent search market share in South Korea. WIPS currently provides online services for over 150,000 customers from 5,000 domestic and international companies.

WIPS, INC.

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