Lee & Ko IP Group has provided a broad range of services for multinational clients and prominent Korean companies, including searches in trademark, design, and domain names, as well as monitoring, brand protection and portfolio management services. Based on our team’s accumulated experiences and know-how, we are able to help our clients secure their trademark and design rights swiftly and efficiently.

After conducting thorough searches on existing trademarks or publicly-known designs, Lee & Ko IP Practice Group determines whether the client’s trademark or design is likely to be registered and recommends client-centered options for selecting and filing a trademarks, design and related products/services with the highest likelihood of successful registration in Korea.

Beyond filing Korean applications, Lee & Ko IP Practice Group also advises clients on key trademarks and designs that require registration with the client’s global business in mind. We also actively monitor applications or use of trademarks and designs by other companies that could potentially cause problems for our clients’ trademark and design rights to ensure timely responses and to protect our client’s valuable IP.

Most notably, Lee & Ko’s attorneys are also involved in IP litigation outside of prosecution work. By leveraging these enforcement and defense capabilities in prosecution work, we are able to provide the best solutions for protecting our client’s IP. In addition, our team includes members who have previously served as examiners at the KIPO, IPTAB judges, Patent Court judges, and judicial researchers at the Supreme Court.

More than 40% of Lee & Ko's IP professionals hold a technical or law degree from abroad, have practiced IP law in law firms overseas, or are licensed as foreign attorneys/patent attorneys, and able to provide top-notch client service at a global level. Lee & Ko also maintains extensive networks and business relationship with local firm in many countries, small and large, around the world to meet the needs of our clients with respect to trademark and design rights.

Expertise

Prosecution work

Trademark search before filing an application
Review likelihood of registration before filing an application
Represent filing applications in Korea and overseas, responding to an office action, and carrying out registration

Represent clients in IP disputes

Opposition
Cancellation action, invalidation action, scope confirmation action
Infringement action

Consultation and others

Propose trademarks or designs that require registration in connection to client’s business
Monitor competitors’ trademarks or designs
Transfer rights, register licenses