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Sungsoo (Sean) Hwang is a partner patent attorney at Lee & Ko IP in charge of patent prosecutions in electrical and mechanical areas. He has an extensive experience with a demonstrated history of successfully representing multinational corporations before the Korean Intellectual Property Office, IP Tribunal, Patent Court, and Supreme Court. His practice focuses on patent prosecutions and trials, patent invalidation and infringement analysis, patent prior arts searches, pre-litigation patent strategies and patent litigation.

Mr. Hwang has extensive patent prosecution experience and has handled patent disputes in a wide range of technologies, including particular specialization in electrical/computer engineering, telecommunications, digital signal processing, semiconductor devices and manufacturing processes, medical devices and computer software technology. He was admitted to the Korean Patent Bar in 2003 and is currently a member of the Korean Patent Attorneys Association.

Mr. Hwang received his B.E. and M.E. in electronic and electrical engineering (1996, 1998) from Seoul National University. His master’s thesis is a study of CDMA communication systems with interference cancellation processing. He also earned an LL.M. degree in 2012 from Northwestern Pritzker School of Law at Chicago, IL.

Mr. Hwang worked at Samsung Electronics from 1998 to 2004 as a senior engineer in the wireless communication division, where he developed next generation mobile phones and worked as a member of task force team to develop new core chipsets, and also worked at Samsung Electronics in-house intellectual property team. Prior to joining Lee & Ko IP, Mr. Hwang served as a principal patent attorney at the Agency for Defense Development (ADD), where he was responsible for patent portfolio management. He also worked at Kim & Chang from 2005 to 2017 as a senior patent attorney, where he handled a variety of intellectual property matters ranging from litigation, prosecution, IP transactions and portfolio management.
Education
2012 Northwestern Pritzker School of Law – LL.M.
1998 Seoul National University – Master’s Degree in Electronic and Electrical Engineering
1996 Seoul National University – B.S. in Electronic and Electrical Engineering
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Work Experience
2018-Present Lee & Ko IP
2024-Present KPAA(Korea Patent Attorneys Association), Director of Planning
2017-2018 Agency for Defense Development
2005-2017 Kim & Chang IP
2004 FirstLaw P.C.
1998-2004 Samsung Electronics Co.
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Admissions
2003 Admitted to the Korean patent bar
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Languages
Korean, Japanese and English
Awards and Recognitions
2024 IAM Patent 1000 – Recommended - Individuals: Prosecution
2023 IAM Patent 1000 – Prosecution Recommended Experts 2023
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Publications / Presentations / ETC
'Batch examination now available for IP applications,' ILO Intellectual Property Newsletter. (2014)
Korean Patent No. 322,019, entitled 'Method for detecting transmission rate in CDMA telephone set' (also issued as U.S. Patent No. 6,785,298) (1999)
'Performance Analysis of multi-rate CDMA system,' Journal of KICS, pp.943-950. (2000)
'Performance of multi-rate optical wireless CDMA system over an indoor non-directed diffuse channel,' 8th JCCI Conference, pp.1007-1011. (1998)
'Asynchronous Multirate optical wireless PPM-CDMA in an indoor non-directed diffuse channel,' Electron. Lett., vol. 33, no. 18, pp. 1565-1567. (1997)
'Performance of an indoor optical wireless PPM-CDMA system with interference cancellation schemes,' in Proc. IEEE PIMRC 1997, Helsinki, Finland. (1997)
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