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www.leemock.com Y. P. LEE, MOCK PARTNERS Intellectual Property Law & SEOUL, KOREA About our Firm 04 Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical, 10 Electrical & 24 Overseas Supporting Group 38 Materials & Chemistry Group Electronics Group Contents History 06 Administration Group 40 Managing Partner 07 Mechanical & 16 Trademark & 36 Mechatronics Group Copyright Group Contact 42 Senior Partners 08 www.leemock.com About our Firm LEADING IP LAW FIRM IN KOREA UNDERSTANDING CLIENTS FULL COVERAGE OF IP MATTERS STRENTH IN IP DISPUTES Y.P. Lee, Mock & Partners is an IP law firm providing a full Y.P. Lee, Mock & Partners is dedicated to fully understanding The spectrum of our service covers all aspects of intellectual Y.P. Lee, Mock & Partners provides well reputed service in range of services in all fields related to intellectual property. the needs and concerns of our foreign clients, many being property and technology. Our professionals’ knowledge IP dispute matters. In collaboration with Yulchon, a top- The firm consists of around 340 employees, including Fortune 500 companies. Providing a high quality prosecution and experience cover a wide range of technologies, tier litigation firm that we formed a strategic alliance with more than 170 IP attorneys and attorneys-at-law, working service in order to obtain strong and effective IP protection such as biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, materials, in 2008, our litigation team has handled a number of high together to provide the firm’s full range of services to the full for our foreign clients requires much more than simply chemistry, electrical engineering, mobile communications, profile IP dispute cases, including Apple Inc. v. Samsung satisfaction of both domestic and overseas clients. overcoming language barriers. Our IP attorneys possess nanotechnology, computer hardware and software, Electronics, in Korea. Y.P. Lee, Mock & Partners has been often referred to as the a wide range of legal expertise in various IP legal systems semiconductors, mechanical engineering, mechatronics, largest IP law firm in Korea, but this is only one of the many as well as in-depth knowledge of various technical fields, healthcare related technology, and so on. Highly experienced OUR VISION and they offer a dedicated service to meet the demanding trademark attorneys also provide quality services for ways to describe our firm. We have always strived to provide Members of Y.P. Lee, Mock & Partners share a unified vision challenges faced by each of our foreign clients. trademark cases. quality services to our clients. Since our inception in 1985, and the same values. One of our principal objectives is to we have evolved and grown in size, but our motto of “Best In addition to our strong prosecution practice, for which we serve our clients by establishing stable, reliable, and long- INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE AND NETWORK Service to the Full Satisfaction of the Clients” has remained have been ranked as a top tier firm in Korea by several IP term relationships. Another is to understand and anticipate the same. Y.P. Lee, Mock & Partners annually handles around 7,100 survey institutions, we are also active in technology and our clients’ needs and interests and to continuously enhance Comments from our foreign clients such as “The applications overseas patent and trademark applications around the IP rights analysis, performing due diligence, IP consulting, our services to fully satisfy every need of our clients. prepared by your firm are better than any other ones from world through hundreds of our foreign associates. Our licensing, IP portfolio management and more. Korea” and “We have no reservation in recommending abundant experience of foreign prosecution and in-depth your services to our clients” are among the most honorable understanding of various foreign IP systems enable us to accolades we have received. provide effective and reliable services to our numerous domestic and foreign clients. www.leemock.com 1985 History ~ 2014 Managing Partner Y.P. LEE, MOCK & PARTNERS has been providing IP related services to 1985 10 Founded by Mr. Youngpil Lee in Seoul, Korea (Y.P. LEE & Associates). clients home and abroad for the last 30 years. Since the launch of our ’88 07 Launched service for Samsung group companies. firm 30 years ago, we have grown to be the biggest IP boutique firm in Korea, with over 170 IP attorneys. In 2013, our firm filed around 7,000 07 Launched filing services to foreign jurisdictions. applications in Korea and another 7,100 applications in foreign countries, including USA, Europe, Japan and China. We owe all this growth to our clients’ continuing trust. I would like to thank our clients and associated 1990 03 Moved to Cheongwha Building for expansion. law firms from the bottom of my heart. ’91 12 Ranked No.1 firm in Korea in terms of overseas patent filing. Covering all fields of IP related-matters in all technologies, we will never ’93 03 Established trademark and design department. stop developing our capacity and services. Besides filing service, we will firmly set our position as the best IP professional group providing ’95 03 Established EZ Consulting Co., Ltd. for IP related peripheral services. comprehensive IP related services including dispute resolution, licensing, ’99 01 Awarded by Minister of Industries for contribution to KIPO’s online filing system. transactions, validity checks and searches. 03 Awarded by KIPO Commissioner as a leading firm in online filing. Doubly assuring you of our proactive and meticulous services which are provided at a reasonable cost to the full satisfaction of our clients, we cordially ask for your continued support. 2000 04 Mr. Youngpil Lee awarded by KIPO as a “Knowledge Economy Leader”. Youngpil Lee 11 Ranked as a leading firm in business model patent application. Founder and Managing Partner ’03 04 Merged with Mock’s Patent Firm and changed name to Y.P. LEE, MOCK & PARTNERS. ’05 07 Changed firm’s legal status to a professional corporation. Mr. Lee received a BSc. in Aerospace Engineering from Seoul National University ’08 02 Allied with general practice firm YULCHON for IP litigation. in 1971. He was admitted to the Korean Patent Bar in 1982. Before his IP career, Mr. Lee worked as an engineer at Samsung Aerospace Industries Co., Ltd. (currently Samsung Techwin Co., Ltd.) As a patent attorney, he worked at D.S. Mock Patent and Law Office (1983-1985) until he founded Y.P. Lee and 2012 05 Launched paperless docket management system. Associates in 1985. Since then, Mr. Lee has successfully prosecuted domestic 07 Moved to Daelim Acrotel Building in Gangnam District for expansion. and overseas patents in various technical areas, and has been involved in a considerable number of patent litigation cases in Korea. He was appointed as a ’14 03 Ranked as a top tier IP law firm in Korea by Chambers & Partners. professor at the International IP Training Institute and a counselor for the Korea Law Times. Mr. Lee actively served as a member of the IP Dispute Mediation Committee of the Korean Intellectual Property Office and has vast experience in the commercialization of patents. Additionally, he made significant contributions to the revision of IP related laws and played central roles in several IP related organizations such as the Korea Patent Attorneys Association (KPAA), AIPPI, APAA, LES, and INTA. www.leemock.com 1 Jay Jehyun Kim Senior Partners Mr. Kim graduated from Seoul National University with a BSc. (1982) in Aerospace Engineering. He received an MSc. (1989) in History of Science and Technology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the United States. He is responsible for patent prosecution, litigation and other IP related matters for a number of foreign clients in the fields of mechanical and automotive technologies, mobile communications, display devices and mechatronics. As a member of Yulchon, Lee & Mock joint IP litigation team, he was involved in several notable IP dispute cases in Korea. Before joining the firm, he worked as a patent attorney at Kim & Chang and as a senior partner at Yoon & Yang IP Law Office. He was admitted to the Korean Patent Bar in 1994 and is an active member of KPAA, APAA, INTA and AIPPI. 2 Haeyoung Lee Mr. Lee received a BSc. in Electronics from Yonsei Univ. in 1985. He obtained an LL.M from the Graduate School of Law, Yonsei Univ. in 2008. He was admitted to the Korea Patent Bar in 1997. Prior to joining the firm in 1993, he gained experience in IT-related technologies at Goldstar Information & Telecommunications Co., Ltd (currently LG Electronics Co., Ltd.). His technical experience extends over a variety of areas of electronics and electrical engineering, such as telecommunications, computer hardware and software and semiconductor electronics. He is a member of KPAA, AIPPI and 3 5 LES. His practice usually relates to electrical engineering, IP consulting, prosecution, trial and litigation. 1 3 Hokeun Lee 2 Mr. Lee received a BSc. in Atmospheric Science from Yonsei Univ. in 1991 with a minor in Physics. He also received a 4 Master of Intellectual Property Law (MIP) from the Law School of the Univ. of New Hampshire (formerly Franklin Pierce Law Center) in the U.S. in 1998, and an MSc (2001) and ABD (2000) in Electrical Engineering from Yonsei Univ. in 2001. Before joining the firm, he was associated with Kim & Chang and Central Patent and Law Office. His specialty relates to electrical engineering, electronics, telecommunications, and computer hardware & software. He is responsible for patent prosecution, litigation and other IP related matters in the fields of electrical engineering, electronics, and software. He was admitted to the Korea Patent Bar in 1996 and is a member of KPAA, APAA, and AIPPI. 4 Younggi Hong Mr. Hong received a BA in Business Administration from Yonsei University. He also received a Master of Intellectual Property Law (MIP) from the Law School of the Univ.