The Ministry of Intellectual Property said on the 26th in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, that it held a kickoff ceremony for the "public administration information system for intellectual property rights improvement project." The project runs through 2029 and will be funded with $9.73 million (about 13.4 billion won) from the official development assistance (ODA) budget of the Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA).
The project will build a Korean-style intellectual property administration system tailored to local conditions in Uzbekistan, with the goal of improving the overall intellectual property administration, including filing and examination, on a digital basis. The Ministry of Intellectual Property said it is the first case of transferring overseas an intellectual property administration system that applies AI-powered search and classification functions and an electronic administrative processing framework.
Through this project, the Ministry of Intellectual Property plans to establish a base for spreading the Korean-style intellectual property administration model in Central Asia and use it as a bridgehead to expand exports of the Korean-style AI-based intellectual property administration system to ASEAN and Africa in the future.
Jeong Jae-hwan, director general of intellectual property information, said, "This kickoff ceremony marks the starting point for the full-scale implementation of the Korean-style AI-based intellectual property administration system in Uzbekistan," and added, "We will do our best to both advance Uzbekistan's intellectual property administration environment into a cutting-edge intellectual property administration system and foster a favorable intellectual property environment for our corporations entering Uzbekistan."