Jae Hoon LEE - Kim & Chang IP

Overview

Jae Hoon Lee joined Kim & Chang in 2016 is a professional patent attorney who has experienced in aspects of patent practice including patent application, registration, examination, prosecution, litigation, and assessment for intellectual property such as patents and utility models.

Especially he has been in charge of technology development for many years in The Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Energy, while working as the president of Intellectual Property Trial & Appeal Board of Korean Intellectual Property Office(KIPO) which was the last position of his 30 years career in there. For 17 years in KIPO, he has also taken charge in examination, prosecution, and validity/clearance searches of patents and utility models in person, and generalized its policies.

Profile

Experience

Kim & Chang (2016-present)

Member, Dispute Mediation Committee of Seoul High Court (2017-2023)

Member, Intellectual Property Dispute Mediation Committee of Korean Intellectual Property Office(KIPO) (2015-2021)

Vice president, Korea Intellectual Property Society (2014-present)

New Korea International Patent & Law Firm (2014-2015)

President, Intellectual Property Trial & Appeal Board, Korean Intellectual Property Office(KIPO) (2012-2013)

Presiding Trial Judge, Korean Intellectual Property Office(KIPO) (2011-2012)

Director General, Machinery, Metal and Construction Examination Bureau & Information Policy Bureau, Korean Intellectual Property Office(KIPO) (2008-2011)

Director, Air-conditioning Machinery Examination Division, General Machinery Examination Division & Examination Quality Assurance Division, Korean Intellectual Property Office(KIPO) (2003-2008)

Researcher, Institute of Intellectual Property & National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, Japan (2002-2003)

Director, Transportation Machinery Examination Division & Administrative Patent Judge, Korean Intellectual Property Office(KIPO) (1998-2002)

Examiner, Examination Adjustment Division, Korean Intellectual Property Office(KIPO) (1997-1998)

Deputy Director, Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Energy (1992-1997)

Deputy Director, Korean National Railroad (1984-1992)

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Awards

Service Merit Medal (2008)

Publications/Activities

The precedent and recent trend of Compensation for Employee Invention in Japan, The Employee Invention Forum in 2004 (Co-author, Korea Invention Promotion Association, 2004)