Current : TS-optics Corporation

Previous : Chipworks, LG electronics, Daewoo electronics

 

Experience

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President
KIPARANG IP Holdings
March 2013 – Present (10 years) Seoul

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 ※ Royalty Settlement Negotiation

Contractor
Chipworks
November 2013 – July 2014 (9 months) Seoul

 

※ Chipworks (Canadian Reverse Engineering company) Agency in Korea
- IP Service / Regional Sales Director
- exclusively responsible for this job during the term of the contract.

 

 

Manager
LG electronics
March 2006 – September 2012 (6 years 7 months) Seoul

 

※ Litigation - licensing team @Twin tower, Woomyeon, SNU

 

 > SanDisk Flash memory (ITC) defense suit (with Sidley Austin)
SanDisk counterclaim preparation with USB patent (with Ropes and Gray)

 

 > O2 micro Monitor CCFL inverter chip litigation - defense
@ ITC (with Morgan, Lewis & Bockius) / China Woohan court (with China Sinda)

 

 > Wi-LAN V-chip litigation (Southern District court of New York) - defense
from the start of the suit to the pre-trial (with Greenberg Traurig)
won at 1st instance / won at CAFC

 

 > Sony TV/Monitor defense litigation (ITC/ CDCA/ Mannheim / Düsseldorf)
studied Border Detention / Prejudgment Seizure in Europe (hide-and-seek)
(with Bird & Bird, Fish and Richardson)

 

 > iiinnovation (Germany/ Hamburg) patent infringement suit – defense
(with Wuesthoff & Wuesthoff, WILDANGER)

 

 > Innovus Prime (U.S. patent troll) litigation (NDCA) - defense

※ Negotiation (Technical meeting, Biz meeting)

 

 > Thomson DTV licensing program : technical meeting

 

 > LSI (U.S. / DTV portfolio)

 

 > Alliacense (U.S. patent troll) / Core Flash portfolio & Fast Logic portfolio

※ Communication

 

 > Reported DTV related Royalty every quarter

 

 > Had communication with RPX (patent risk reducing company)

 

 ※ DRM patents prosecution, Patent Pool Licensing - @Woomyeon

 

 > DRM Patent Prosecution

 

 > Hitachi litigation preparation (with DRM patents) - assertion

 

 > Patent call : OCAP standard pool, MPEG4 standard (KR patents)

※ Optical Disk Patent Prosecution & Disputes - @DM patent group

 

 > handled HLDS (Hitachi-LGE joint venture) related matters

 

 

Assistant Manager
Daewoo electronics
August 2004 – March 2006 (1 year 8 months) Seoul

 

※ OLED Patent Prosecution
  > Passive Matrix OLED Patent Prosecution
  (had communication with engineers)

 

 ※ OLED Patent Licensing
  > Kodak OLED patents

 

 ※ Funai VCR litigation - defense

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Honors & Awards

 

Exceptional Employee Prize 2010 / IP center, LG electronics

 

Exceptional Employee Prize 2009 / IP center, LG electronics

 

 

Patents

 

Method of Managing Copyright Information of Digital Contents, Device
and Method of Controlling The Replay of The Digital Contents
and Recording Medium Containing The Copyright Information

Korea (PCT) WO08/048034
Issued October 16, 2007

 

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