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Senior Foreign Attorney

Julie SHIN

IP Litigation

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Ms. Julie Shin is a member of Lee & Ko's Intellectual Property and Healthcare ꞏ Life Sciences Groups, specializing in cross-border transactions, litigation, international dispute resolution and regulatory compliance. She has extensive experience advising clients in the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical device, chemical and consumer products industries, and is recognized as a business-savvy counsel with a practical, results-driven approach based on a keen understanding of clients’ business objectives.

Ms. Shin’s expertise covers all areas of intellectual property, including patent, trademark and trade secret analysis, litigation and dispute resolution; IP licensing, joint ventures, M&A, collaboration and other transactions and related due diligence; and IP management and development. In the pharmaceutical and medical fields, her expertise also extends to regulatory compliance and issues relating to regulatory approval, patent-approval linkage system and patent term extension.

Before joining Lee & Ko, Ms. Shin worked for a number of years at a prominent U.S. law firm and served as a senior legal counsel at Samsung Electronics, where she negotiated and managed numerous IP and technology transactions, including patent licensing and acquisitions from leading global companies as well as startups and prestigious research institutes and universities around the world, and led the company's IP team focusing on medical equipment and healthcare products.

With both in-house and law firm experience on a broad range of legal and business concerns across multiple industries, Ms. Shin efficiently guides clients in developing comprehensive business and legal strategies to achieve desirable outcomes.
Representative Cases
Represented global pharmaceutical companies in a broad range of patent litigation matters, including patent infringement actions, preliminary injunction actions, patent invalidation actions and scope confirmation actions, many involving blockbuster drugs; case included patent litigation relating to Novartis’s blockbuster heart failure drug against multiple Korean generic companies, which was the largest pharmaceutical patent infringement litigation in Korea
Advised global pharmaceutical companies on issues relating to patent-approval linkage system, drug approval, Pharmaceutical Affairs Act, and patent term extension
Advised pharmaceutical companies in asset transfer, IP licensing, drug development, contract manufacturing and other transactional matters
Defended a major consumer products company in product liability litigation relating to humidifier disinfectants
Advised Korean and multinational companies, startups and others in intellectual property matters and disputes
Represented global fashion brands, consumer products companies and others in trademark litigation and disputes
Represented a Korean restaurant franchisor in a dispute against its foreign franchisee
Advised various clients in licensing and other transactional matters and disputes
Advised a global restaurant chain and an automotive company in regulatory and investigative matters
Performed due diligence investigations in connection with various M&A, licensing and other transactional matters
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Education
2003 University of Virginia School of Law - J.D.
1999 Yale University - B.S. in Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry and Economics
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Work Experience
2014-Present Lee & Ko
2024-Present Panel of Arbitrators, KCAB International
2024-Present AIPPI, Standing Committee on Alternative Dispute Resolution
2023-Present AIPPI, D&I Committee
2016-Present The Ministry of Justice Legal Advisory Committee for Small and Medium Businesses
2010-2014 Samsung Electronics
2003-2010 Winston &Strawn
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Languages
English and Korean
Awards and Recognitions
2024 Silver, IP Litigation, IAM Patent 1000 The World's Leading Patent Professionals
2024 Recommended, IP Transactions, IAM Patent 1000 The World's Leading Patent Professionals
2023 IAM Patent 1000 The World's Leading Patent Professionals
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Publications / Presentations / ETC
AIPPI Korea Seminar, Recent FRAND/SEP Decisions in Europe and Korea (Moderator) (2024)
ABA International Law Section, Technology Legal Due Diligence in M&A Transactions (Moderator) (2023)
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