Profile
Mr. Jeong is a registered patent attorney with expertise in Mechanical Engineering.
He is a managing partner at OnYou Intellectual Property Law Firm. He received his B.E. in Mechanical Engineering (2008) from Inha University. He was admitted to the Korean Patent Bar in 2007. Before joining the firm, he worked at KBK & Associates as a patent attorney from 2009 to 2018. He practices all aspects of intellectual property law, specializing particularly patent prosecution/litigation and client counseling. He has handled numerous patent cases involving issues of inventive step and description requirements for electronic and mechanical inventions, and doctrine of equivalents, infringement and validity opinions.
His main areas of practice include patent filings and trials of domestic and overseas applications for registration of patents or utility models and other services relating thereto, in home appliance, heavy machinery, software, electro-mechanical systems, apparatus for manufacturing for semiconductor, medical device, networking system. He also often lectures corporate employees and students in universities about protecting their intellectual property.
He has considerable foreign patent experience, having obtained patents in U.S., Japan, Europe, and China. He has also experienced handling international PCT applications under the Patent Cooperation Treaty and national filing of foreign patents.
Education
- Inha University, Mechanical Engineering (B.E.)
Experience
- KBK & Associates (2009~2018)
Membership
- Korean Patent Attorneys Association (KPAA)
- Asian Patent Attorneys Association (APAA)
Languages
- Korean, English, Japanese