Hojun Yeom BAE, KIM & LEE IP

  • Partner, Patent Attorney
  • T. +82-2-3404-0464
  • F. +82-2-3404-0805
  • E. hojun.yeom@bkl.co.kr

Overview

Attorney Hojun Yeom, a partner of BKL, focuses on, including, without limitation, IP Litigation & Counseling; Trade Secrets & Corporate Information Protection; IP Transactions, Licensing & Strategy.

After being appointed as a judge in 2003, he worked as a Judge at the Patent Court and as the Director of Research and Planning Department at the Judicial Policy Research Institute of Supreme Court, and worked as a Judge for 18 years until he finally retired as a Presiding Judge at the Intellectual Property Division of the Seoul Central District Court in 2021. He obtained his master of Laws degree (LL.M) in intellectual property law from Seoul National University and studied as a visiting researcher at the Georgetown Law Center.

He lectured on the patent law at the Judicial Research and Training Institute of Supreme Court, and co-authored the ONJU Patent Law, ONJU Copyright Law, interpretation of Trademarks Law, interpretation of the Unfair Competition Prevention Act, interpretation of Industrial Design Protection Act, interpretation of Copyright Law, Defend Trade Secrets Act, Commentary on the employee invention system, Intellectual Property Litigation Practice, and Entertainment Law and published a number of intellectual property papers, such as "How to Determine the prosecution history estoppel in doctrine of equivalents". Currently, he is a legal advisor of the Presidential Council on Intellectual Property and, at the same time, the chairman of the case study in Korea Association for Informedia Law.

Representative Experience

2021-Present Bae, Kim & Lee LLC
2019-2021 Presiding Judge, Seoul Central District Court
2017-2019 Director of Research and Planning Department/Senior Researcher, Judicial Policy Research Institute
2017-2019 Presiding Judge, Incheon District Court
2015-2017 Presiding Judge, Gwangju District Court
2014-2015 Judge, Seoul Central District Court
2011-2014 Judge, Patent Court
2010-2011 Judge, Seoul Northern District Court
2008-2009 Visiting researcher, Georgetown Law Center, U.S.A
2006-2010 Judge, Incheon District Court
2003-2006 Judge, Busan District Court

Education

2003 Seoul National University (LL.M.)
2000 Judicial Research and Training Institute, Supreme Court of the Republic of Korea
2008 Seoul National University (B.A.)

Selected Activities

Publications
Interpretation of the Unfair Competition Prevention Act (Co-author, Pakyoungsa, 2020)
Interpretation of Trademarks Law (Co-author, Pakyoungsa, 2018)
Patent Law, writing representative Youngsun Cho (Co-author, LAWnB ONJU, 2017-present)
Copy Right Law, writing representative Jongsu Yoon (Co-author, LAWnB ONJU, 2017-present)
Defend Trade Secrets Act, edited by Korea Patent Law Society (Co-author, Pakyoungsa, 2017)
The Effect of Request for Correction Trial on the Hearing of Cancellation of Invalidation Decision, Study of Precedents on Patent Disputes Vol.3 (Korea Patent Law Society, 2017)
Whether the claim for division of patent co-ownership is recognized and the method of division, Informedia Law Precedents (II) (Korea Association for Informedia Law, 2016)
How to determine the prosecution history estoppel in doctrine of equivalents, Studies on Special Act No. 13 (Jurisdiction Development Foundation, 2016)
Commentary on the employee invention system, edited by Korea Patent Law Society (Co-author, Pakyoungsa, 2015)
Interpretation of Industrial Design Protection Act, edited by Sangjo JONG (Co-author, Pakyoungsa, 2015)
Intellectual Property Litigation Practice, edited by Patent Court IP Litigation Practice Research Society (Co-author, Pakyoungsa, 2014)
Identification of the challenged invention, Patent Litigation Research Vol. 6 (Patent Court, 2013)
Trial for cancellation of non-use trademark for some designated products, Law & Technology Vol. 9(4) (Seoul National University Technology and Law Center, 2013)
Review of temporary reproduction under the Korea-US Free Trade Agreement, Law & Technology Vol. 5(3) (Seoul National University Technology and Law Center, 2009)
Interpretation of Patent Law, edited by Sangjo JONG (Co-author, Pakyoungsa, 2007)
Entertainment Law, edited by Sangjo JONG (Co-author, Pakyoungsa, 2007)
Brief Study of Article 67 of the Trademark Act, Law & Technology Vol. 3(1) (Seoul National University Technology and Law Center, 2007)
European Union's Directive on Database Protection and Recent Trends, International Media Law 2006 Vol. 1 No. 19 (Korea Press Foundation, 2006)
Protection of Database, Law & Technology Vol. 2(3) (Seoul National University Technology and Law Center, 2006)
A Study on the Legislative Direction for Database Protection (Master’s thesis, Seoul National University, 2003)
Activity
Lecturer of Seoul Bar Association in Intellectual Property Training Institute (2021)
Lecturer on IP litigation practice for the judicial officers in Judicial Research and Training Institute of Supreme Court of the Republic of Korea (2020)
Lecturer on Intellectual Property Law for in-service training in Research and Training Institute for Lawyers of Korean Bar Association (2019)
Lecturer on patent law research in Judicial Research and Training Institute of Supreme Court of the Republic of Korea (2014-2015)

Qualifications

2000 Korea