We DDBJ released the patent data as a nucleotide sequence and an amino acid sequence that was accepted by Korean Intellectual Property Office (KIPO) and that being able to distribute. The KIPO’s patent data is first time distribution. We released that data at February 21, 2008.
Number of nucleotide sequence: 168,562 entries (93,982,299 base-pair)
Number of amino acid sequence: 113,555 entries (16,499,605 amino-acid)
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Besides the data of KIPO, International Nucleotide Sequence Database (INSD) (collaboration of DDBJ, EMBL and GenBank) distribute other patent data that was accepted by Japan Patent Office (JPO), European Patent Office (EPO) and United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
For details, please refer to “Nucleotide Sequences Included Patent Applications” section of Patent, Intellectual Property and Priority page.
The prefix of the accession number of KIPO patent is "DI". Please refer from the following to the example of the open to the public data.
(ex) DI000001
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So, the prefixes for patent related data are;
JPO: E, BD, DD, DJ
EPO: A, AX, CQ, CS, FB
USPTO: I, AR, DZ, EA
KIPO: DI
The following figure shows summary of TOP 10 of number of ORGANISM in KIPO entries.
This announce introduced the applied data from KIPO that distributed first time. In the future, DDBJ and KIPO will build a mechanism that regular acquisition and distribution KIPO data.