Hyeong Joo Lim

Career

Hyeong Joo Lim, a partner in Yulchon’s Intellectual Property Practice, is the head of New Industry IP Team and the deputy head of the Internal Investigations Team. Mr. Lim has extensive experience in performing civil and criminal litigation and in providing advice on technology leakage and trade secret, and in performing litigation involving patent infringement, compliance issues including trade secret, employee invention and prohibition of solicitation and internal investigation (including forensic analysis).

With such extensive work experience and positive client comments, Mr. Lim has been recognized as a leading individual in the IP field in Korea by prestigious international and domestic publications and directories, such as Chambers & Partners, Legal 500, and Asian Legal Business. He was also awarded with a ministerial commendation from the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy for his hard work in advancing industrial technology protection and selected as the Best IP Lawyer by the Korea In-House Counsel Association in 2020. Mr. Lim also serves as a Special Counsel in the Bio Section of the Presidential Council on Intellectual Property and a member of the Copyright Protection Deliberation Committee of the Korea Copyright Protection Agency.

Personal

Education

2006 Judicial Research and Training Institute, the Supreme Court of Korea

2002 Seoul National University, College of Civil, Urban & Geo-system Engineering, B.E.

Experience

2009-present Yulchon LLC (Head of the New Industry IP Team; Deputy Head of the Internal Investigation Team)

2019-present Arbitrator, Korean Commercial Arbitration Board

2018-present Expert Advisor, Industrial Technology Protection Committee of Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy

2021 Member, Intellectual Property Council for New Technology Environment, Korea Copyright Commission

2021 Member, Committee for Improvement of Legislative System for AI Industry, National Information Society Agency

2021 Member, Technology Protection Division of Committee for Improvement of Trade Secret Protection System, Korea Intellectual Property Office

2021 External advisor, Korea Music Copyright Association

2020 Reviewer, Copyright Protection Review Board, Korea Copyright Protection Agency

2020 Expert Advisor on smart city, Korea Agency for Infrastructure Technology Advancement

2020 Expert Advisor on Biomedicine, Presidential Council on Intellectual Property

2020 Member, Industrial Property Right Dispute Mediation Committee, Korean Intellectual Property Office

2020 Member of Taskforce for Technology Protection in Biotechnology Industry in Response to COVID-19 Pandemic

2019 Appointed as a member of the dispute resolution committee of the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy

2019 Legal expert of Korea Intellectual Property Protection Agency

2019 Full member of National Academy of Industrial Security of Korea

2019 Advisor to Korea Copyright Protection Agency

2019 Director of Korea Intellectual Property Management & Economics Association

2019 Advisor on Amendment of the Act on Prevention of Divulgence and Protection of Industrial Technology

2019 Advisor to Employee Invention Deliberation Committee of Osong Medical Foundation

2018 Lecturer of Technology Divulgence for Investigators of Industrial Technology Divulgence Investigation Units and Forensic Investigators Nationwide

2018 Non-executive Member of Block Chain TF committee of Korean Bar Association

2018 Member of Special Committee on Startup and Regulation Innovation of Korean Bar Association

2017 Examiner of National IT Industry Promotion Agency (NIPA)

2017 Director of Korean Intellectual Property Lawyers Association (KIPLA)

2016 Advisor to Employee Invention Review Committee of SK Chemicals

2016 Lecturer of Intellectual Property Rights at National Tax Service, International Legal Affairs Bureau

2016 Lecturer of Professional Training Course of the Korea Patent Attorneys Association (Acts of Unfair Competition and Trade Secret)

2015 Lecturer of Trade Secret at Korea Institute of Patent Information and at Korean Association for Industrial Technology Security

2014 Advisor to Employee Invention Review Committee of Samsung Electronics