Jeonghoon Hong is a partner lawyer at Lee & Ko, where he has been working since 2013. He majored in Electrical Engineering and Statistics at Seoul National University and Applied Mathematics at Harvard University. He graduated from law school at Seoul National University.

During his time at Lee & Ko, Mr. Hong has handled various intellectual property disputes, including patents, trademarks/franchises, unfair competition, copyrights, trade secrets/technology leakage, designs, domains, work for hire, licensing, games, entertainment, and trade measurement (customs, trade commission). Mr. Hong, who holds a New York State Bar license, has also been involved in numerous international patent/trade secret disputes related to cutting-edge technologies, such as U.S. federal court and ITC litigation.

Mr. Hong's deep understanding of statistics and mathematics has earned him a strong reputation as an intellectual property specialist in areas such as big data collection, processing, and analysis. He has demonstrated excellent expertise in fields where issues arise with regard to data analysis, such as confirming bacterial strain sources through SNP analysis/phylogenetic analysis, proving epidemiological correlations between substances and diseases through patient-control group studies/cohort analyses, reviewing the validity of clinical trial designs, and interpreting the results of equivalence tests or superiority trials.

Based on his rich experience in handling intellectual property disputes, Mr. Hong provides efficient and strategic legal and technical advice to clients at all stages of dispute. Mr. Hong, an intellectual property specialist at Lee & Ko, has established a high level of trust among his clients.