The MFDS plans to prepare a collection of data so that domestic pharmaceutical companies can pioneer the Chinese pharmaceutical market by utilizing the Patent-approval linkage system within the first half of this year. The MFDS recently announced research services for "Overseas the Patent-approval Linkage System Survey and Domestic Impact Analysis." Following the signing of the Korea-U.S. FTA in 2007, the Pharmaceutical Affairs Act has been fully implemented in Korea since March 2015 through the revision of the Pharmaceutical Affairs Act twice in 2012 and 2015.

The study was designed to identify recent overseas systems and trade agreements related to the Patent-approval linkage system and to support pha