Testbed for Content Development Installed
The Korea IT Industry Promotion Agency (KIPA) has set up a test bed for content development for communication and broadcasting convergence for the purpose of providing an environment appropriate for the development and test of bi-directional data broadcasting contents, and has held an opening ceremony on December 14. This test bed is composed of 12 kinds of set top boxes, a large-scale display, a transmission system for data broadcasting and digital broadcasting, and data broadcasting contents production tool.
Accordingly, the companies that try to develop data broadcasting contents and test them will be able to use this test bed. KIPA president Yu Young-min said: "In order to increase the utilization rate of a new media and activate its market, the first thing to do is develop the digital content. For this reason, we have set up the test bed to help developers get over their difficulties."
Intellectual Property Robotics Rapidly Developing
According to the Korea Intellectual Property Office (KIPO) on December 8, 2006, the number of the trademark applications in the robotic field has averaged about 230-240 on an annual basis until 2003. But it has increased to 823 cases in 2004, 1,106 cases in 2005, and 1,019 cases as of September 2006. In particular, the largest number of applications has been made by Samsung Electronics with 95 cases, followed by KT with 65 cases, SK Communications with 63 cases, KTF with 52 cases, and LG Electronics with 45 cases. Representatives at the KIPO said: "Following the global semiconductor market, the robot market is expected to appear as a "blue ocean" in the foreseeable future, so many companies are making efforts to make an application in this field in order to preoccupy the robotic market."
