Partner
Boohan KIM
IP Litigation
Boohan Kim joined Lee & Ko's IP Practice Group in 2019, following a distinguished 16-year career as a judge in the Korean court system. Mr. Kim's judicial experience includes 3 years of service as a Korean Patent Court judge responsible for adjudicating a large volume of patent and other IP-related matters including (among other things) patent revocation actions and disputes concerning trademarks and design rights, as well as dealing with various IP-related civil appellate matters. Additionally, Mr. Kim's judicial experience includes the handling of a broad range of legal disputes in the areas of civil, criminal and administrative law.
Representative Cases
- Patent Infringement and Invalidation Lawsuit Involving Electronic Compressor of HVAC
- Represented a Software Development Company Against a Computer Program Copyrights Infringement Action
- Various Patent Infringement and Invalidation Lawsuits
- Various Trade Secret Lawsuits
Education
| 2013 | The University of Adelaide - Visiting Scholar |
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| 1997 | Seoul National University - B.S. in Physics |
Work Experience
| 2019-Present | Lee & Ko |
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| 2018-2019 | Daegu District Court, Presiding Judge |
| 2015-2018 | Patent Court, Judge |
| 2011-2015 | Daejeon District Court, Judge |
| 2007-2011 | Cheonan Branch of Daejeon District Court, Judge |
| 2006-2007 | Haenam Branch of Gwangju District Court, Judge |
| 2005-2006 | Gwangju District Court, Judge |
| 2004-2005 | Gwangju High Court, Assistant Judge |
| 2003-2004 | Gwangju District Court, Assistant Judge |
Languages
| Korean, English and German |
Publications / Presentations / ETC
- 「The IP Litigation Practice IV」 co-author, Patent Court IP Litigation Practice Research Society (2019)
- ONJU Patent Law, Co-author (2017)
- Presuming the Infringer's profit as the Loss (Patent Litigation Research, Vol.7, Patent Court, 2017)
- A Case Relating to Prosecution History Estoppel in Doctrine of Equivalents (Deliberate Exclusion) (「Law & Technology」, Seoul National University 2017. 11.)
