Pukyong National University

PKNU won the 2022 Busan patent strategy contest

- swept the grand, best, and excellent prize

△ A group photo of the winners.

Pukyong National University (President Jang Young-Soo) students swept the grand prize, best prize and excellence prize at the '2022 Busan patent strategy contest' held at the Dongwon Jang Bogo Hall of Pukyong National University recently hosted by the Korean intellectual property office, Busan metropolitan city, and Korea invention promotion association and organized by the Regional Intellectual property center and Pukyong National University.

Pukyong National University's sophomores in Industrial chemistry, Kim Hae-Ri, Shin Yu-Jin, and Lee Joo-Yeon, were recognized as the best patent strategy ideas in this competition and were awarded the grand prize from the president of the Korea invention promotion association. The prize money is 1 million won.

They reviewed market trends and related patent trends for industrial safety gloves with puncture resistance that Jangmi gloves presented, and selected key patents and presented an appropriate patent strategy for the company and received good reviews.

At the same time, the team of 4th graders, Heo Jae-Seong, Park Ji-Young, and Moon Ji-Hyeon of the department of chemistry at Pukyong National University received the best award and prize money of 750,000 won from small and medium-sized venture companies in this competition. Choi Ji-Won, a 4th year student in the department of chemistry, Ahn Dong-Yoon, a sophomore in the Nanotechnology engineering, Ahn Hyeon-Woo, a sophomore in the department of smart green-tech convergence engineering, Han Nara, a 3rd year student in the food and nutrition, and Shin Ye-Seol received the excellence award and a prize of 500,000 won.

The Busan patent strategy contest, which marks its 5th anniversary this year, is a competition in which companies present problems and students (graduate) from local universities present creative patent strategies.

In this year's competition, a total of 103 students from 41 teams from universities in Busan, including Pukyong National University, participated the contest and competed for their ideas on problems posed by 15 Busan local companies, including Jangmi gloves, Conotek, and the Cook Korea, for 7 strategic industries in Busan.

After Pukyong National University was selected as the operating university for the IP regional talent nurturing program, it participated in this competition as part of the program of the job-linked IP regional talent nurturing group (leader Yang Ji-Young, professor in Food and nutrition) and achieved excellent results. <Pukyong today>