Southern organization for disabled registers tradmark in North

An executive member of an organization for disabled people in Pusan applied for the registration of a trademark, which was registered with the Korean Intellectual Property Office, in North Korea.

The director of the International Consultation Committee for disabled People, Kang Chung-Gurl aged 51, who is also the chairman of the ¡°from Paekdu to Halla¡± event preparation committee, an event for the ¡°Grand March for the Long Cherished Desire of Unification¡±, announced Tuesday that he had applied for the 21 Unification Trademark registration in North Korea via a Chinese agent through Lee So-Nam International Patent Attorney¡¯s Law Office.

Kang is the first person who sought a trademark registration in the name of South Korea, although there have been cases in which the registration of trademark of an individual or a corporation was applied for in the North Korea in the name of a third country.

Kang explained that he came to apply for the 21 Unification Trademark registration to North Korea in the name of achieving unification, a long cherished desire of all Korean people, in the 21st century. He added that the related documents were sent to the Chinese agent last Saturday, and the application would be accepted by the Trade Representative Office affiliated with Pyongyang Patent Office, North Korea within 2-3 days.

The symbol mark presented along with the trademark portrayed a tiger shaped like the Korean Peninsula roaring towards the Pacific, not the continent.