- Practice Areas
- Intellctual Property
- Intellectual Property
Intellectual Property
- Practice Areas Introduction
- Intellectual property includes patents, trademarks, designs, copyrights, and trade secrets, etc. Disputes relating to intellectual property are rapidly increasing as the global competition has intensified, and the intellectual property has now become one of the essential considerations in the management of the company as the scope of protection granted to intellectual property is expanding partly due to FTAs around the globe. Intellectual property is the area where there is a sharp conflict of legal opinions on the issue of how much protection should be given to the invisible rights resulting from the development of new technologies. Hankyul’s intellectual property team provides top-class legal services with its wide experience in the legal advice and litigation in the intellectual property area.
- Practice Areas
- Infringement litigation about patent, trademark, design (preliminary injunction) and litigation seeking damages
- Taking civil and criminal measures in response to trade secret infringement
- Advice to domestic and foreign clients on the agreements relating to intellectual property, trade secret protection strategies, and compliance
- Patent and trademark application, and advice and representation in the intellectual property tribunals
- Arbitration involving intellectual property issues
- Representative Matter
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n Patent and trademark Infringement Litigation
- Litigation seeking damages relating to KAIST patent in biotechnology
- Litigation seeking damages for aquarator patent infringement
- Preliminary injunction against patent infringement relating to cellular phone keypad, waste lubricating oil purifier, and dental prosthesis, etc.
- Litigation seeking damages for trademark infringement resulting from parallel import of name brand products
n Trade Secret Infringement Litigation
- Trade secret litigation relating to GM Korea Company’s PDIM and MMAR technologies
- Trade secret criminal litigation relating to NCsoft Corporation’s MMORPG game
- Trade secret infringement criminal litigation relating to semiconductor inspection equipment, cellular phone built-in antenna, and heavy equipment braker
- Civil and criminal litigations relating to laboratory data management program copyright and trade secret infringement
n Copyright Litigation and Advice
- Civil and criminal litigation relating to ‘Be the Reds’ T-shirt’s copyright
- Litigation about compensation for the universities’ use of the copyrighted works in class
- Litigation seeking damages and injunction against infringement upon North Korean author’s copyrighted work
- Advice to the domestic and foreign clients on the agreements and licenses of the publishing companies and film companies
n Advice to the domestic and foreign clients on intellectual property
- Advice on the joint development agreement and license agreement between a semiconductor development company and a pharmaceutical company
- Advice on trade secrets and consulting for the establishment of trade secret protection strategies
- Advice on the international disputes and agreements related to intellectual property
- Advice on compliance in the intellectual property area
- Professionals
Yun Boknam
Yoon Deokgeun
Hwang Yeyoung
Um “Brian” Taejin