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Je Young Kim, CTO of LG Energy Solution, earned his bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees in chemical engineering from KAIST until 1999, and then continued his research as a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Chemistry at SUNY Stony Brook, USA. After joining LG Chem in 2000, he served as a cathode material development team leader, EV battery advanced development team leader, and a researcher at the Battery Research Center, contributing to LG Energy Solution becoming a leader in the secondary battery field. Since 2020, he has been the Center Leader of Cell Advanced Development at LG Energy Solution, and currently serves as the CTO of LG Energy Solution and the Vice Chairman of Industry-Academia Cooperation of the Korea Electrochemical Society, playing a central role in the R&D of secondary batteries in Korea.

He obtained the Korean patent attorney qualification in 2009, gained practical experience as a patent attorney at KBK & Associates and DAHAI Patent & Law Firm, and took charge of corporate IP work at Kakao. He is currently a director at Kakao Enterprise. He majored in computer science and is actively working as an IP expert related software such as artificial intelligence, cloud computing, etc. He is currently serving as the chairperson of the software division of the Korea Intellectual Property Association and advisory member of Presidential Council on Intellectual Property’s research subcommittee.

Jihoon Kim, Ph. D, Principal Consultant at Clarivate, is responsible for overseeing consulting operations in Korea, designing customized solutions through in-depth analysis of customer needs. His main duties include consulting on IP strategies, patent portfolio management, competitive analysis, and optimization of IP creation/protection processes, utilizing platforms such as Derwent, Innography, and IPFolio. In the wave of AI application to IP industry, Ji Hoon is responsible for feeding Korean IP requirements to the team.
Before joining Clarivate, Ji Hoon worked at Samsung Electronics, where he was involved in IP strategies and participated in the company-wide IP task force to enhance quality and cost efficiency. Dr. Kim graduated from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Rutgers, State University of New Jersey and later received his master’s and doctoral degrees in Electrical Engineering from Seoul National University.

Since 2008, Jang-Hyun Yoo has been an active patent attorney. Leveraging his programming background, he founded IPACTORY and developed IPEDIT, an AI SaaS platform for drafting and translating patent documents, used by major corporations and patent agents in South Korea, China, and Japan. He recently launched A.I.T. (Augmented Intelligence Translation) and established subsidiaries in China and Japan, expanding globally with an AI-driven platform. Yoo, a graduate of Seoul National University's Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, has extensive IP experience in fields such as mechanical engineering, IT, software, and AI, combining his academic background with industry expertise.

With over 10 years of experience as a Korean Patent Attorney and U.S. Attorney, he observed how top-tier global researchers strategically utilize patent data. Driven by the vision of making patent data accessible to everyone worldwide, he founded Wert Intelligence. Following the success of Korea’s first AI-powered patent search engine, keywert, he introduced IP intelligence that enables the development of business strategies through IP data analysis. Notably, he is leading the market with PAT-BERT, the world’s first patent language model that integrates AI with patent data, and keynect, a generative AI technology for patents. Mr. Yoon earned a Master’s degree in Intellectual Property from Seoul National University and CWRU Law School. He also served as an expert member of the Presidential National Intellectual Property Committee.

Donghyun Kim, Senior Consultant at LexisNexis, is a member of the LexisNexis Global Customer Success team. She is currently based in Bonn, Germany, and serves as the team leader for the Customer Success teams in Korea, China, and Taiwan. With her understanding of LexisNexis products and IP, she supports global customers to achieve success, and has experience supporting Fortune 500 companies and executing numerous important IP-related projects.

Judge Hyejin Lee is a currently presiding judge of the Intellectual Property (IP) High Court of Korea. She served as a judge of the IP High Court of Korea (2013-2017) and as a research judge of the Supreme Court of Korea (2017-2020). With over a decade of practical experience in the IP field, she contributed to making many leading cases. She has also authored numerous articles and columns, including ‘Patent Law Issue of Invention of Medical Use’ (Supreme Court Law Journal, 2016. 6.) and ‘Designing the global vaccine supply chain: balancing intellectual property rights with post COVID-19 vaccine equity’ (BMJ Global Health, 2023. 11.).

Chinsu Lee, Chief Intellectual Property Officer at Hurom Co., Ltd., leads the company's global IP strategy and enforcement. As a Korean patent attorney with an engineering background, Lee has held notable roles as Chief Legal Officer at Seoul Semiconductor and Patent Counsel at Samsung Electronics. Known for his innovative legal strategies and flawless litigation record, his expertise spans semiconductors, consumer electronics, and computer science. Lee is widely regarded as a leader in the international intellectual property arena.

Since beginning his public service career at the Korean Intellectual Property Office in 2000, Mr.Jeong held various positions, including Spokesperson, Director of the Intellectual Property Policy Division, and Director of the Trademark Examination Policy Division, managing major policy tasks of the office. He also served as Director General of the Planning and Coordination, overseeing the office's budget, organization, and regulatory tasks. Based on the extensive experience in intellectual property policy, He is currently serving as Director General of the Intellectual Property Protection & Cooperation Division, leading efforts to enhance South Korea’s intellectual Property protection infrastructure.

Judge Kim is currently at IP Chamber of Seoul High Court and was at IP High Court until earlier 2021. During his years at IP High Court, he also served as the Director of IP High Court International IP Law Research Center. He first took bench in 2010 at the Daegu District Court and then the Suwon District Court. Judge Kim earned a B.A. degree in Law in 2005 from Yonsei University, and received an LL.M. Certificate in Law & Technology from Berkeley Law School in 2017. He also did fellowships as a visiting judge in California Superior Court and the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California in 2017.

After achieving LL.B degree from Seoul National Univ. in 1994, he worked as a developer in IT and mobile industries, has been working on IP in KT Group since 2010 and in charge of IP of KT Corp. since 2017, now undertaking the President of KINPA since 2024.

Jiwoo Jeong is a partner at Lee & Ko’s IP Practice Group and a prominent patent attorney representing top multinational companies in South Korea as well as the United States, Europe, and Japan. She has handled various IP matters, including prosecution, invalidation and infringement case analysis, oppositions and invalidation/cancellation actions before the Korea Intellectual Property Office (KIPO) and Intellectual Property Trial and Appeal Board (IPTAB) as well as litigations before the Korean Patent Court and the Supreme Court in the field of trademark and design.
In particular, she was scouted by the Korean government to join IPTAB and was appointed as the first-ever female trademark administrative judge. She has handled a number of trademark actions as a member of the Board. Internationally, she participated in the trial benchmarking study between IPTAB and EUIPO’s Board of Appeal and gave presentations on subjects such as quality management of appeals, protection of well-known trademarks, and market survey in trademark proceedings. Furthermore, she was frequently invited to give lectures to KIPO examiners, trademark administrative judges and examiners in foreign IP offices, and was selected as an outstanding lecturer by International Intellectual Property Training Institute in 2020. She also administered an intellectual property dispute education program for judges in developing countries hosted by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), the Judicial Research and Training Institute (JRTI), and KIPO.

Taerae Kim is a Korean lawyer graduated from Yonsei University and SNU School of Law. Mr. Kim has dealt with various IP matters at LG H&H since 2016.

Mizi Park is a Korean IP attorney and the senior lead of the global IP enforcement team at Alibaba International Digital Commerce Group. She currently focuses on IP protection for the Korean market and Korean rights holders pertaining to the Group s international commerce platforms. Mizi Park previously served as the director of partnerships and legal serves at an Al brand protection company and has a wealth of experience in trademark, design, and anti-counterfeiting cases.

Insup Lee earned his Bachelor’s degree in Economics from Harvard University and his Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School. From 2013 to 2015, he worked as a consultant at McKinsey & Company, providing strategic advice across various industries. Following that, from 2015 to 2018, he served as the Director of Strategy at Honest Fund, where he played a key role in driving the company’s growth. In 2019, he founded Marq Vision Inc. and is currently the CEO. Under his leadership, the company is dedicated to protecting intellectual property, envisioning the future, and fostering an environment where creativity and innovation can thrive.

Yeah-Sil Moon is a leading U.S. and Korean patent lawyer as recognized by Chambers, Super Lawyers, and the New York Times. Her 30-year practice is an extraordinarily rich experience of successfully handling patent prosecution, litigation, and strategic counseling matters for clients in the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, chemical, automobile, telecommunication, electronic, mechanical, and medical device sectors. She has assisted BMS (formerly Celgene Corp.) regarding billions dollar a year drugs for treating cancers and immune, inflammatory conditions. Further, she has successfully defended patent infringement actions in various district courts and the International Trade Commission (ITC). Recently, she achieved a tremendously important victory for SK Innovation in a patent infringement dispute before the ITC involving lithium-ion battery technology used in electric vehicles. She also obtained Federal Circuit's decision affirming a summary judgment of patent noninfringement for PI Advanced Materials (SKC Kolon PI) and won a jury verdict of patent noninfringement for SOLiD in the Northern District of California.

Anthony M. Insogna is the Practice Leader of Jones Day’s global IP Practice and is a leading life sciences patent lawyer as recognized by clients, Chambers, and his peers.  He has more than 28 years of experience enforcing and defending patents worldwide, driving portfolio strategy for drug candidates and FDA approved products, and conducting due diligence for companies, investors, and private equity firms.  Anthony and his teams have achieved numerous victories in patent litigation, including the record-breaking $2.54B patent infringement verdict for Idenix (Merck & Co.) and $107.5M in Puma Biotechnology vs. AstraZeneca.  His patent strategies have protected several multimillion and multibillion dollar products.  Anthony and his teams successfully defended Humira® patents in IPRs brought by Amgen, Coherus, and Sandoz and several others for Revlimid®, among other products.  Furthermore, Anthony’s IP strategies have been tested in M&A transactions by BMS, Dainippon, Amgen, Pfizer, Merck and many others.

Julie Shin is a former senior legal counsel at a multinational consumer electronics corporation in South Korea, where she managed intellectual property (IP) and technology transactions, including patent licensing and acquisitions from companies and prestigious research institutes and universities around the world, and led the company's IP team that focused on medical equipment and health care products. Further, Julie has advised clients on numerous transactions, including multimillion- and multibillion-dollar acquisitions and investments by health care and venture capital companies. Julie has advised companies in the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical device, chemical, consumer products, consumer electronics, semiconductor, and EV (electric vehicle) battery industries. With both in-house and outside counsel experience on a broad range of legal and business concerns, Julie is valued by clients as a trusted partner and is praised for her practical and business-savvy, results-driven approach.

Hong-Jun Ha focuses his practice on patent and trade secret litigation in U.S. district courts and the United States International Trade Commission (ITC) and advising clients on transactional IP issues related to joint venture, strategic partnership, joint development, patent acquisition and licensing, and mergers and acquisitions. With a background in electrical engineering, he has an in-depth understanding of semiconductors, electrical circuits, and telecommunications technology as well as new technology such as self-driving and AI. He has worked as both outside and in-house counsel, which allows him to understand clients' business goals, engineering development processes, and products in support of patent litigation, transaction, and prosecution matters.