Kook-Hyun Kim - Attorney at Law / Senior Partner

Kook-Hyun Kim

Attorney at Law / Senior Partner

Mr. Kim is an attorney at law who represents and provides counsel to clients in in-depth legal matters related to intellectual property law. Since starting his career as a patent and trademark attorney in 1994, his practice encompassed virtually all aspects related to intellectual property from drafting and prosecuting patent applications to patent trials and litigation, and over the years, he has provided professional services relating to trademark registration, licensing and litigation to both domestic and multinational corporate clients.

Before joining KASAN, he worked at Kim & Chang, Lee & Ko and Myung-Shin & Partners. While working at Kim & Chang, he has prosecuted a large number of inbound patent applications and was extensively involved with representing multinational corporate clients in patent trials and litigation. At Lee & Ko, his major domestic clients included LG electronics and LG-Philips LCD, which he represented in technology transfers, litigation, trade secret, copyright and trademarks.

He is regularly involved with patent and trademark infringement litigations. Particularly, he has successfully represented domestic clients (defendants) in landmark patent infringement lawsuits. Though a patentee asked for the largest damage compensation in the history of our patent infringement lawsuits, attorneys for the defendants, including Mr. Kim, successfully defended the clients in a trial that lasted for 3 years.

Mr. Kim is a frequent speaker at various seminars attended by domestic and international patent practitioners. He regularly gives lectures at the Korean Invention Promotion Association and the Korean Patent Attorney Association. Recently, he was invited to give a lecture related to Korean patent practice in the field of chemistry at an international science symposium, Pacifichem 2005 in Hawaii.

Currently, he is involved with the WIPO's educational project, as a counselor to the Korean Invention Promotion Association and the Korean Intellectual Property Office. Both organizations provided the WIPO with online education materials related to patent, trademark, copyright, trade secret, etc.

Mr. Kim is an active member of LESI, INTA, APAA, KPAA and the Korea Bar Association.

Mr. Kim received a B.S. and an M.S. in Pharmaceutics from Seoul National University (SNU) in 1987 and 1989, respectively, a Masters in IP from Franklin Pierce Law Center in New Hampshire, U.S.A. in 1994, and a LL.B. from Seoul National University in 2000.

Mr. Kim passed the Korean patent bar examination in 1993 and the Korean bar examination in 2000.

Mr. Kim wrote a book, “Business Secrets Protection Law” in 2010.

He is versed in English and Japanese.