KIPRIS

KIPRIS is an internet-based patent document search service which is available to the public free of charge. It covers publications of Korean IPR applications, legal status information and trial information, etc. Korea Institute of Patent Information has been providing KIPRIS since 1996 on behalf of KIPO.

KIPRIS is designed to promote the use of patent information for R&D activities, patent disputes, corporate mergers & acquisitions and so on. KIPRIS consists of a basic search function for entry-level users and an advanced search function for experienced users. For user’s convenience, KIPRIS also provides online download function. Users can easily access to the KIPRIS through Naver and Empas, major Korean portal sites that acquire the data from KIPI.


KIPRIS provides access to bibliographic data and Korean full text. A fee-based servuce called K2E-PAT, is available for users who wish to search the Korean full text using English keywords. The search interface at K2E-PAT. Performing a search through the interface is free; however, attempting to open the machine translated text of individual search results will bring up a payment screen.

Both General and Advanced search interfaces are available for the service. On the search results screen, links are provided to the English hand-translated abstract (from the Korea Patent Abstracts database, or KPA) when available, the full document image with text in original Korean, or a machine translation of the Korean full text into English as provided by the K2E-PAT service (a fee-based service).

The webpage direction is: http://eng.kipris.or.kr/eng/main/main_eng.jsp