Mr Yong-Beom Kim > Lee International IP & Law Group > Seoul, South Korea > Lawyer Profile

Mr Yong-Beom Kim

82-2-2262-6220 kimyb@leeinternational.com

Work Department

• Patent prosecution and registration
• Ex parte and inter partes cases in IPTAB
• Ex parte proceeding in Patent Court
• Patent-Drug Approval Linkage
• Biotechnology
• Chemistry
• Pharmaceuticals                                                                 

Position

Patent Attorney

Career

Yong-Beom Kim deals with a wide range of work for patent registration and trial and litigation in the fields of biotechnology, chemistry and pharmaceuticals.

Prior to obtaining his license as a patent attorney, he worked at Green Cross Research Lab (2004-2006).  And as a patent attorney specialized in biotechnology and chemistry, he has accumulated experiences in patent offices as various as Hansung International Patent and Law Office (2012-2013), NAM&NAM World Patent & Law Firm (2013-2015) and Hanol Intellectual Property & Law (2016-2017) while serving clients in patent prosecution and registration and trial and litigation.  

Yong-Beom Kim graduated from Seoul National University with a degree in applied biology and chemistry (2000) and earned his master’s degree in agricultural life science engineering in the same university (2003). 

Representative Cases

• Patent prosecution in a wide variety of pharmaceutical areas including antibodies and vaccines
• GlaxoSmithKline, AstraZeneca, TEVA: patent prosecution, OA, trial and litigation on behalf of multinational pharmaceutical companies
• Celltrion, CJ Cheil Jedang, Korea United Pharm: OA for domestic pharmaceutical companies
• Registration of drug patent relating to Patent-Drug Approval Linkage
• Provision of information, prior art search

Languages

Korean English

Memberships

Korea Patent Attorneys Association (KPAA)

Education

• Seoul National University (Applied Biology and Chemistry, B.S, 2000)
• Seoul National University (Agricultural Life Science Engineering, M.S.,2003)