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Korean-American Intellectual Property Organization (KAIPO) Internet and Member Portal Agreement

 

Notice: This Internet and member Portal Agreement was executed on 06/23/2020.

 

General: Welcome to Korean-American Intellectual Property Organization Web and Member Portal network, home of KAIPOUSPTO.ORG. As part of our online service, the Korean-American Intellectual Property Organization a.k.a. (KAIPO) agrees to provide you with information and other computer related services subject to the terms of this agreement. Upon notice published through this agreement, the Korean-American Intellectual Property Organization has the exclusive right to amend or modify these terms at any time. You agree to use Korean-American Intellectual Property Organization Web and Member Portal network in accordance with this agreement.

 

Disclaimer of Endorsement: Reference herein to any specific commercial products, process, or service by trade name, trademark, manufacturer, or otherwise, does not necessarily constitute or imply its endorsement, recommendation, or favoring by the Korean-American Intellectual Property Organization. The views and opinions of authors expressed herein do not necessarily state or reflect those of the Korean-American Intellectual Property Organization nor any of its members (Regular, Associate, or Friends), and shall not be used for advertising or product endorsement purposes.

References from KAIPOUSPTO.ORG or from any computer related services sponsored by the Korean-American Intellectual Property Organization to any individual, governmental or non-governmental entity, product, service or information does not constitute an endorsement or recommendation by the Korean-American Intellectual Property Organization nor any of its members (Regular, Associate, or Friends). Also, the Korean-American Intellectual Property Organization nor any of its members (Regular, Associate, or Friends) is not responsible for the content of any “off-site” web pages referenced from KAIPOUSPTO.ORG and all of the information is provided “as is” and without warranties of any kind either express or implied.

 

Disclaimer of Liability: With respect to documents available from KAIPOUSPTO.ORG or its Member Portal, neither the Korean-American Intellectual Property Organization nor any of its members (Regular, Associate, or Friends), does not make any warranty, express or implied, including the warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose, or assumes any legal liability or responsibility for the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of any information, apparatus, product, or process disclosed, or represents that its use would not infringe privately owned rights.

Under no circumstances, including, but not limited to, negligence, shall the Korean-American Intellectual Property Organization nor any of its members (Regular, Associate, or Friends) be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, special or consequential damages that result from the use of, or the inability to use, KAIPO materials or KAIPOUSPTO.ORG or any other computer related service. You specifically acknowledge and agree that the Korean-American Intellectual Property Organization nor any of its members (Regular, Associate, or Friends) is not liable for any defamatory, offensive or illegal conduct of any user. If you are dissatisfied with any KAIPO material, KAIPOUSPTO.ORG, computer related services or with any of Korean-American Intellectual Property Organization’s terms and conditions in this agreement, your sole and exclusive remedy is to discontinue using the Korean-American Intellectual Property Organization web network.

Korean-American Intellectual Property Organization may allow you to purchase different types of products and services online that are provided by other parties. Korean-American Intellectual Property Organization is not responsible for the quality, accuracy, and timeliness, reliability or any other aspect of these products and services. You release the Korean-American Intellectual Property Organization its members (Regular, Associate, or Friends) from any damages that you incur, and agree not to assert any claims against them, arising from your use of these products or services.

 

Posts, Forums, Groups, E-Mail Messages, and Chat Rooms: This service may include posts, forums, groups, e-mail messages, and/or chat rooms (“bulletin boards”) which allow feedback to KAIPO and its members and/or real-time interaction between users. KAIPO does not control the messages, information or files delivered to bulletin boards or e-mail messages. It is a condition of your use of the bulletin boards, discussion groups, e-mail messages, chat rooms and KAIPOUSPTO.ORG that you do not:

Restrict or inhibit any other user from using and enjoying the bulletin boards, forms, discussions groups, e-mail messages, or chat rooms.

Post or transmit any unlawful, threatening, abusive, libelous, defamatory, obscene, vulgar, pornographic, profane or indecent information of any kind, including without limitation any transmissions constituting or encouraging that would constitute a criminal offense, give rise to civil liability or otherwise violate any local, state, national or international law.

Post or transmit any information, software or other material which violates or infringes upon the rights of others, including material which is an invasion of privacy or publicity rights or which is protected by copyright, trademark or other proprietary right, or derivative works with respect thereto, without first obtaining permission from the owner or right holder.

Post or transmit any information, software or other material, which contains a virus or other harmful component.

Post, transmit or in any way exploit any information, software or other material for commercial purposes, or which contains advertising.

You understand that the Korean-American Intellectual Property Organization nor any of its members (Regular, Associate, or Friends) has no obligation to monitor the bulletin boards, forms, discussions groups, e-mail messages, or chat rooms. However, the Korean-American Intellectual Property Organization , reserves the right at all times, to disclose any information as necessary to satisfy any law, regulation or governmental request, or to refuse to post or to remove any information or materials, in whole or in part, which are objectionable or in violation of these terms and conditions.

 

System Abuse:

System abuse on the Korean-American Intellectual Property Organization Web network is strictly prohibited. The Korean-American Intellectual Property Organization may terminate or modify service immediately and may bill for any resulting support charges if the user and/or client engages in system abuse.

Following is a list of actions, which has been defined as system abuse. This list is non-exclusive; any action about which there is any doubt should be referred to the Korean-American Intellectual Property Organization for evaluation.

 

Actions, which constitute system abuse include, but are not limited to:

Attempting to circumvent user authentication or security of any user, host, or account on the Korean-American Intellectual Property Organization Web network or the Internet at large (“cracking”);

Attempting, in any way, to interfere with or deny service to any user, host, or account on the Korean-American Intellectual Property Organization network; forging email posting header information;

Sending large numbers of unsolicited mail messages (i.e. “junk mail”); this includes adding or attempting to add addresses to any mailing list without explicit positive consent of the addressee on the Korean-American Intellectual Property Organization Web network.

Forwarding or posting “chain letters” (multiple forwarding) of any type;

Posting inappropriate messages to the Korean-American Intellectual Property Organization  Web network newsgroups e.g., posting large numbers of unsolicited posts indiscriminately (“spamming”), or posting encoded binary files to the Korean-American Intellectual Property Organization Web network newsgroups not specifically named for that purpose;

Attempting to cancel, supersede, or otherwise interfere with email other than one’s own on the Korean-American Intellectual Property Organization Web network;

Engaging in harassment, whether through language, frequency, or size of messages;

Using an account at another provider to promote the Korean-American Intellectual Property Organization Web site in an abusive manner;

Using an KAIPOUSPTO.ORG account or any account on the Korean-American Intellectual Property Organization  Web network connection to collect replies to messages sent from another provider which violate these rules or those of that provider;

Reselling Korean-American Intellectual Property Organization services to third parties who do not abide by these guidelines.

 

Electronic Mail Policy:

It is not the policy of the Korean-American Intellectual Property Organization to send unsolicited commercial electronic mail to anyone and all Electronic messages being sent from the Korean-American Intellectual Property Organization server are in compliance with the Korean-American Intellectual Property Organization national policies concerning Electronic messages and in compliance with the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 – Public Law No: 108-187. However, if anyone receives any Electronic messages from the Korean-American Intellectual Property Organization , they can be removed at no cost to them, by sending a reply to the originating electronic mail address with the word ‘remove’ in the subject line.

 

KAIPOUSPTO.ORG Member Portal: The purpose of the KAIPOUSPTO.ORG is to provide useful information. This information should not be confused with legal advice. While we endeavor to have all information accurate and complete, neither KAIPO nor its members warrant that the information is complete or accurate. Please note that information you provide to KAIPO may not be privileged & confidential pursuant to law.

 

KAIPO Advisory Assistance Program: The purpose of the KAIPO Advisory Assistance Program is to provide useful information through use of emails (KAIPO@USPTO.GOV). This information should not be confused with legal advice. While we endeavor to have all information accurate and complete, neither KAIPO nor its members warrant that the information is complete or accurate. Please note that information you provide to KAIPO may not be privileged and confidential pursuant to law.

 

Privacy: Unless the user inform the Korean-American Intellectual Property Organization reserves the right to use and to disclose the user information (e.g. user name and e-mail address) for purposes such as providing users with information. If the user does not wish to be included in such uses, the user must send an e-mail requesting to be taken off any lists of information that may be used, given or sold to other parties.

We collect NO personal information like names or addresses when you visit our website. If you choose to provide that information to us it is only used to fulfill your request for information. We do collect some technical information when you visit to make your visit seamless. The section below explains how we handle and collect technical information when you visit the Korean-American Intellectual Property Organization Web network.

Information Collected and Stored Automatically When you browse, read pages or download information on Korean-American Intellectual Property Organization Web network, we automatically gather and store certain technical information about your visit.

 

The information we collect and store about your visit is listed below:

* The Internet domain (for example, “xcompany.com” if you use a private Internet access account, or “yourschool.edu” if you connect from a university’s domain) and IP address (an IP address is a number that is automatically assigned to your computer whenever you are surfing the Web) from which you access our website; * The type of browser (e.g., Netscape, Internet Explorer) and operating system (Windows, Unix) used to access our site; * The date and time you access our site; * The pages you visit; and This information is only used to help us make the site more useful for you. With this data we learn about the number of visitors to our site and the types of technology our visitors use.

If You Send Us Personal Information: If you choose to provide us with personal information — like filling out a Contact Us form with personal information and submitting it to us through the website — we use that information to respond to your message and to help us get you the information you have requested. We only share the information you give us with another government agency if your inquiry relates to that agency, or as otherwise required by law.

Site Security * For site security purposes and to ensure that this service remains available to all users, Korean-American Intellectual Property Organization Web network computer system employs commercial software programs to monitor network traffic to identify unauthorized attempts to upload or change information, or otherwise cause damage. * Unauthorized attempts to upload information or change information on this service are strictly prohibited and may be punishable under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986 and the National Information Infrastructure Protection Act.

Notice: Information from the Korean-American Intellectual Property Organization resides on a computer system operated by the Korean-American Intellectual Property Organization. The use of this system may be monitored for computer security purposes. Any unauthorized access to this system is prohibited and is subject to criminal and civil penalties under State, Local and Federal Laws. You may not modify, copy, reproduce, republish, upload, post, transmit or distribute in any way any material from this site including code and software. You may download material from this site for your personal, non-commercial use only, provided you keep intact all copyright and other proprietary notices.

 

Publicity Policy:

Release of Publicity Rights

Portions of KAIPO meetings, programs, and events (“Events”) may be photographed, videotaped or otherwise recorded, transcribed, posted and transmitted by the Korean-American Intellectual Property Organization, its agents, fellow attendees or members of the media. I understand and agree that by registering and attending, or otherwise participating in any Events, I grant to KAIPO the right to record my image, photograph, picture, likeness, and voice by any technology or means. I also grant KAIPO the right to copy, use, perform, display and distribute such recordings of me for any legitimate purpose. I hereby waive any right to inspect, approve, or be compensated for use of any materials incorporating such images obtained during the Events. I release KAIPO and its agents, representatives and licensees from all liabilities arising out of any use of my likeness and information as provided above. I understand and agree that any and all negatives, digital images, and recordings of my likeness, regardless of form, are and shall remain property of KAIPO.

 

Please e-mail the requests to KAIPO@USPTO.GOV.