The majority of international intellectual property disputes regarding Korean companies also involved non-practicing entities, (NPEs). According to the Korean Intellectual Property Protection nAssociation, there were 300 disputes last year, with lawsuits involving NPE's accounting for 81% of them, which was a decrease of 12% from the previous year.
A total of 114 of the suits against NPEs were in the information and communications sector, followed by electrical and electronics (84) and equipment manufacturing (30). By field of technology, computers and mobile represented 31 percent and 21 percent of the cases, respectively. They were followed by AV (13 percent), basic communications processes (11 percent), semiconductors (5 percent), and control (5 percent). In the meantime, the total number of industrial disputes decreased 19 percent from a year earlier to 7,585 last year, and the number of those involved with NPEs dropped 35 percent to 2,856. The ratio of the latter to the former fell from 47 percent to 38 percent between 2013 and 2014, too.
While the Korean government is looking to instill regulations monitoring NPEs, any substantial progress has yet to be made.
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