Experience

MINT Venture Partners
• South Korea
• Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
• 1 - 100 Employee
• Partner/CIPO

  • Aug 2022 - Present

TICAROS
• Zimbabwe
• Business Consulting and Services
• Managing Director, Business Strategy

  • May 2021 - Jul 2022


GENUV Inc. (formerly, Shine Biopharma, Inc.)

• Chief Legal Officer & Managing Director of Strategy & Legal

  • Jun 2016 - Mar 2021

  - Developing patent strategy of drug development and platform technology - Project planning and managing antibody platform technology - Developing patent strategy of drug development and platform technology - Project planning and managing antibody platform technology



GemVax & KAEL, GemVax Technology

• Patent Attorney & Attorney

  • 2015 - May 2016

  - Managed a patent portfolio: Drafting a patent specification, preparing a response to an Office Action, formulating strategies for patent prosecution and maintenance - Obtained listing a patent in Green List (The Korean Patent-Approval Linkage System) - Developed a strategy for resolving a dispute with a Contract Manufacturing Organization - Counseled a negotiation strategy in a license negotiation (Licensing-In) - Managed a patent portfolio: Drafting a patent specification, preparing a response to an Office Action, formulating strategies for patent prosecution and maintenance - Obtained listing a patent in Green List (The Korean Patent-Approval Linkage System) - Developed a strategy for resolving a dispute with a Contract Manufacturing Organization - Counseled a negotiation strategy in a license negotiation (Licensing-In)



Public Citizen

• United States
• Public Policy Offices
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Volunteer/Extern

  • Jun 2012 - Aug 2013

  - Prepared a petition for an invalidation action in Vietnam against a patent on a HIV/AIDS drug - Provided a freedom to operate opinion and validity analysis to Clinton Foundation Vietnam Office with regard to a patent on a HIV/AIDS drug - Drafted legal memos regarding comparative research on utility standards, and research on impact of Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement on Japan’s drug pricing system - Prepared a petition for an invalidation action in Vietnam against a patent on a HIV/AIDS drug - Provided a freedom to operate opinion and validity analysis to Clinton Foundation Vietnam Office with regard to a patent on a HIV/AIDS drug - Drafted legal memos regarding comparative research on utility standards, and research on impact of Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement on Japan’s drug pricing system



Kim & Chang

• South Korea
• Law Practice
• 700 & Above Employee

• Patent Attorney

  • Jan 2001 - Jun 2008

  - In re MCW Research Foundation, Inc., successfully argued before the Supreme Court of S. Korea that description of mechanism of drug action meets utility requirement - Glaxo Smith Kline v. Novartis and Green Cross, represented GSK before the IP Tribunal, Patent Court and Supreme Court of S. Korea, in a patent invalidation action concerning its multivalent vaccine product - Suntory Ltd. v. Martek Biosciences Corporation, represented Martek before the IP Tribunal and Patent Court of S. Korea, in a patent invalidation action concerning dietary supplements in an infant formula - Monsanto v. LG Life Sciences, represented Monsanto before the Supreme Court of S. Korea, in a patent invalidation action concerning its recombinant bovine growth hormone - Prepared and prosecuted patent applications of multinational corporations and S. Korean corporations, including Genentech, Amgen, AstraZeneca, Pfizer, BASF and Maria Biotech etc. - Patent counseling and opinion works including counseling on plant variety protection under UPOV Show less


EZ International Patent & Trademark Law Office
• South Korea
• Legal Services
• 1 - 100 Employee
• Patent Engineer

  • Sep 2000 - Dec 2000

Seoul National University Medical School & Han Wha Pharmaceutical
• Researcher

  • Jan 1998 - Dec 1998