Shin & Kim provides services in the following areas in relation to Intellectual Property:

• Securing patent rights, including applications for examination and registration of patent/utility models, trademark and design rights and management of involved risks
• Analysis on the scope of rights, infringement, methods of rights protection regarding patent/utility models, trademark and design rights
• Claims for permanent injunction, compensation for damages, provisional injunction and other claims regarding patent/utility model, trademark and design rights
• Criminal cases including charges against patent/utility model, trademark and design rights infringement
• Invalidation trials and declaratory judgments on the scope of patent/utility model, trademark and design rights and representation in revocation trials for judgments
• Investigations by the Korea Trade Commission regarding patent/utility model, trademark and design rights
• Investigation by the Korea Fair Trade Commission (KFTC) over patent/utility model, trademark and design rights, and provision of necessary advice
• Technology development and transfer, and licensing agreements
• Coordination of litigation initiated overseas in connection with patent/utility model, trademark and design rights
• Employee invention related issues and disputes over compensation for employee inventions
• Collection of brand royalty of conglomerates (holding companies)

Patents∙Utility Models

• Samsung Display, in patent infringement and invalidation lawsuits (LCD sector)
• UP Chemical, in a patent infringement case (semiconductor device sector)
• KT&G, in a patent infringement case (cigarette manufacture technology sector)
• Cheil Industries Inc., in a patent infringement case (semiconductor materials sector)
• SKC, in a case involving a provisional injunction for patent infringement
• Seoul Semiconductor, in a patent infringement case (LED sector)
• Iljin Electric, in a patent infringement case (transformer sector)
• Hyundai Oilbank, in a patent infringement case (cash receipt business method (BM) patent sector)
• Hynix, in a lawsuit regarding compensation for employees’ inventions (LCD and MPEG sectors)
• Samsung SDI, in a lawsuit regarding compensation for an employee’s invention (Lithium-ion Polymer batteries sector)
• Chong Kun Dang Pharmaceutical Corp., in a lawsuit concerning compensation for an employee’s invention regarding a patent for an improved drug
• Samsung Display, SK Hynix, Hyundai Heavy Industries, LG Household & Health Care, SECUI, TE Connectivity and Binggrae, in applications, examinations and decisions for domestic and overseas patents
• A domestic pharmaceutical company, in establishing selection criteria for inventors
• Patent infringement case between Samsung SDI and Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. (PDP sector)
• Patent infringement case between Samsung Electronics and Winia Mando (air-conditioning unit sector)
• Invalidation lawsuits regarding the use patent of Sildenafil, an anti-impotence drug
• Invalidation lawsuits regarding a usage/dosage patent for Tadalafil, an anti-impotence drug
• Patent infringement case regarding Docetaxel, a general-purpose anti-cancer drug
• Provisional injunction regarding a composition patent for Candesartan Cilexetil, a drug for high blood pressure
• Seven domestic pharmaceutical companies, in a secondary use patent case regarding Pregabalin, a drug for pain relief
• Damage claim regarding the reduced price of Olanzapine, a cure for depression, due to the release of generic products (the first lawsuit involving reduced drug pricing in Korea)

Trademark∙Design

• Crown Bakery, in disputes involving trademark infringement and licensing
• Binggrae, in an infringement lawsuit involving a three-dimensional trademark
• Columbia Sportswear, in a trademark infringement lawsuit
• FILA Korea, in a trademark infringement lawsuit
• Kwang Dong Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd., in a trademark infringement lawsuit
• Hyundai Heavy Industries, LG Household & Health Care, SECUI, Binggrae and others, in applications for design patents
• Hanwha, Binggrae, KB Card and others, in applications for trademarks and patents
• KT&G, in licensing the “Davidoff” and “Lamborghini” brands
• Hanwha Group, in coordinating overseas disputes regarding a corporate logo
• A holding company, on payments of brand royalty
• Major domestic corporate groups, on the collection of brand royalties
• Major domestic major companies, on licensing
• Trade name dispute between Korea Telecom Authority (predecessor of KT Corp.) and KOCOM
• Trial regarding the revocation of a trademark that infringed on the mark “Ferrero Rocher”
• Trial on the scope of rights regarding the mark “Gyeongju-pang (bread)”
• Criminal prosecution and trial for the invalidation of a trademark registration for the “Victoria’s Secrets” mark
• Litigation regarding the design of an electric connector
• Litigation regarding the design of an electric terminal
• Damage claim regarding the development of the “IBK” trademark