Patent experts with career experience in public office and top electronics companies have joined forces to uphold defense of Korean intellectual property rights.
Kim Nam-jung, a patent attorney who served as a head of technology regulation policy department of the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy opens patent law firm P&P in Pangyo, south of Seoul on Friday. “We will put our utmost efforts to help companies to get fair valuation for their technologies and intellectual properties in the market,” he said.
Kim served various government posts at Korea Intellectual Property Office (KIPO) and the Ministry of Trade, specializing in the field of semiconductor and display industries. He lectured at Stanford University’s electrical engineering department as an assistant professor.
Another founding member of P&P Park Chung-soo studied control and measurement engineering at Seoul National University and also worked for KIPO. He graduated from Boston University School of Law and operated a patent law firm in Washington DC in the U.S. He served as a vice president of Intellectual Discovery, a firm specializing in intellectual properties.
Other partners are Sim Dal-hoi, who studied aerospace engineering at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) and worked for Samsung Electronics’ IP strategy team and Choi, Ji-hyung, Seoul National University graduate that worked for LG Electronics and Bae, Kim and Lee LLC.
By Park Yong-beom
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