Awards

• The World's Leading Trademark Professionals (World Trademark Review (WTR) 1000, 2025)
• Litigation Star, Benchmark Litigation Asia-Pacific: Intellectual property (Delinian, 2024)
• Grand Prize of Intellectual Property Paper (Korea Patent Attorney Association, 2018) 

Publications/Activities

[Publication]
 
• Unfair Competition Prevention and Trade Secret Protection Act (Co-author, Pakyoungsa, 2024)
• The Patentability of Selection Invention (Pakyoungsa, 2022)
• Onju Patent Law (Co-author, LawnB, 2018) 
• Commentary of Trademark Law (Co-author, Pakyoungsa, 2018)
• Commentary of Design Protection Law (Co-author, Pakyoungsa, 2015) 
• Civil Execution Law: Theory and Case Study (Jinwonsa, 2014) 
• Preliminary Injunction Litigation: Theory and Case Study (Jinwonsa, 2014) 
 
[Articles]
 
• Exploitation of Derivative Works About Restored Works - Subject Case: Supreme Court Decision 2020Do6425 Decied December 10, 2020 -, Informedia Law Vol.26 No.1 (Korea Association for Informedia Law, 2022)
• A Study on Patentablity of Selection Invention, LL.D thesis (College of Law, Seoul National University, 2022) 
• A Study on the Misappropriation of Other’s Achievements Stipulated in Article 2(1)Ka of the Unfair Competition Prevention and Trade Secret Protection Act, Juris vol. 55 (Supreme Court Library of Korea, 2021) 
• Study on Transfer of Trademark Right and Cancellation of Trademark Registration Based on Use for Unlawful Purpose of Licensee of Trademark, Juris vol. 54 (Supreme Court Library of Korea, 2020) 
• Criteria for Determining the Creative Nature and Substantial Similarity of Mobile Games, Juris vol.49 (Supreme Court Library of Korea, 2019) 
• Requirement for Registration of Patent Term Extension and Scope of Effect of the Extended Patent Right, Juris vol.47 (Supreme Court Library of Korea, 2019) 
• Disposition to Exclude the Import Permission of Medicines from Extension of Patent Term and the Omission of Administrative Legislation, Korean Lawyer vol.733 (Korean Lawyer Association, 2019) 
• Criteria for Determining the Incomplete Invention – Supreme Court Decision 2017Hu523 Decided on Jan 17, 2019, The Journal of Intellectual Property Vol.14 No.4 (Korea Institute of Intellectual Property, 2019) 
• Whether the Application Can Argue with the International Searching Authority for Refusing to Apply for the Correction of the Specification in the International Application Process under the Patent Cooperation Treaty The Journal of Intellectual Property Vol.14 No.1 (Korea Institute of Intellectual Property, 2019) 
• Criteria for Determining Similarity of Combined Trademarks Consisting of Animals - Shaped Figures and Letters, Supreme Court Law Journal Vol.9 No.1 (Supreme Court Library, 2019) 
• The Duration of Injunctive Relief Against Misappropriation and Protection of Trade Secret, Intellectual Property vol.21 (Korea Patent Attorney Association, 2018) 
• Patent Transfer Registration Claims of Legitimate Right holder: In Connection with Unentitled Persons' Patent Applications(Misappropriated Applications), Collected Articles on Various IP Issues: Celebrating the 20th Anniversary of the Patent Court of Korea (Patent Court of Korea, 2018) 
• New Standard of Judgment for Patent Applications Filed by Unentitled Person: Focusing on Derived Invention Modifying Another’s Claimed Invention and Burden of Proof, Supreme Court Law Journal Vol.5 No.2 (Supreme Court Library, 2015) 
 
[Activities]
 
• Counsel for Plaintiff, “Moot Arbitration : Damages Calculation upon Patent Infringement,” 8th IP Court Conference (Patent Court of Korea, 2022)
• The 40th Anniversary of the Court of Appeal for the Federal Circuit's Establishment Suggests to Us (Lawtimes Opinion, 2022.11.)
• Lecturer, “Misappropriation of Other’s Achievements Stipulated in Article 2(1)Ka of the Unfair Competition Prevention and Trade Secret,” Class of Special Study on the Credit Law (College of Law, Seoul National University, 2021.9.)
• Lecturer, “Recent Supreme Court Precedents on Intellectual Property Rights” (Seoul Central District Court, 2020)
• Presenter, “The Misappropriation of Other’s Achievements under the Unfair Competition and Trade Secret Protection Act” (Patent Court of Korea, 2020.10.)
• Lecturer, “Judicial information” (Judicial Research and Training Institute of the Supreme Court of Korea, 2020)
• Presenter, “New Challenges and Overcoming of Korean Civil Execution - Focusing on Compulsory Execution of Co-owned Shares of Intellectual Property Rights and Virtual Currency” (Waseda University Comparative Research Association, 2019)
• Lecturer, “Recent Supreme Court Precedent Trends in the Field of Intellectual Property” (Korea Bar Association & Seoul Bar Association, 2016-2020)
• Moderator, “Session of Chief Judges - Harmonization and Cooperation in Patent Case,” 1st IP Court Conference of Korean Patent Court (2015)
• Presenter, “Claim Construction & Procedural Rule,” 1st IP Court Conference of Korean Patent Court (2015)
• Lecturer, “Intellectual Property Rights Law” (Judicial Research and Training Institute of the Supreme Court of Korea, 2014-2020)