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Patent Case for the Method of Manufacturing Kimchi

https://news.naver.com/main/read.nhn?mode=LSD&mid=sec&sid1=101&oid=015&aid=0002772682 


Korea’s leading food company C, received a cease and desist letter from a competitor company D in the field of manufacturing packaged Kimchi regarding the patent on the method of manufacturing Kimchi and in correspondence, C filed an invalidation lawsuit. AIP, which represented this case analyzed the characteristics of the manufacturing process, such as the use of pre-gelatinized starch and the optimal mix of spices, and found appropriate prior art to neutralize such characteristics, and thus fundamentally eliminating the disputes such as patent infringement lawsuits by invalidating the patent.