Lee International

As of June 17, 2020, the Korean Intellectual Property Office (KIPO) started to accept (general or limited) powers of attorney and electronic (remote) notarial certificates signed digitally by foreign applicants or patentees, provided that their Korean translations include an agent’s statement affirming the authenticity of such digital signatures.

This is also applicable to cases in which a digitally signed power of attorney (or notarial certificate) was submitted but has not yet been accepted.  Please note that only the documents with digital signatures generated by using an electronic signature system, such as DocuSign or the like, will be accepted while a document with a simple synthesis of a signature image using an image editing software will not.