AI Powerhouse Race: Beyond Technology, Experts Unite to Forge Intellectual Property Strategies

NAEK Launches Intellectual Property Strategy Forum
Industry, Legal, and Government Experts to Participate

As the race for supremacy in artificial intelligence (AI) technology increasingly turns into a competition over intellectual property (IP)—including patents and copyrights—experts from Korea's industrial, legal, and governmental sectors are gathering to discuss strategies for a coordinated national response.

The National Academy of Engineering of Korea (NAEK) announced on September 16 that it has chosen "Our Intellectual Property Strategies and Challenges to Emerge as an AI Powerhouse" as its major theme this year and will host the Intellectual Property Strategy Forum on the 23rd at the Chosun Palace Hotel in Gangnam, Seoul. The forum is intended to address policy and institutional challenges aimed at linking AI technological competitiveness to securing intellectual property and strengthening industrial competitiveness.

As AI technologies are rapidly applied in industrial settings, a number of new challenges are emerging that are difficult to address under existing IP regimes. These include acquiring AI-related patents, issues related to training data and copyrights, and rights to outcomes generated by AI. The forum will address such issues from the perspectives of industry, technology, as well as laws and institutions.

Sukjoo Cho, Director of AX Convergence Research Lab at POSCO DX, along with Sooyong Shin, Chief AI and Chief Product Officer (CAIO & CPO) of Kakao Healthcare, will present keynote speeches. The panel discussion will follow, moderated by Yoonmo Sung, former Minister of Trade, Industry and Energy, with participation from Taewook Kang, Attorney at Bae, Kim & Lee LLC; Suyeon Kim, Partner at Deloitte Consulting; Kyungjin Choi, Professor of Law at Gachon University; and Ilgyu Kim, Director General of Intellectual Property Policy at the Korean Intellectual Property Office.

More than 100 participants—including government officials, company CEOs, CTOs, and CIPOs, as well as representatives from universities and government-funded research institutes—will seek out strategies and policy directions for intellectual property in the age of AI.

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