Lee Jae-woo, Former Chief Examiner, Appointed as New Head of Patent Trial and Appeal Board

Provided by the Korean Intellectual Property Office

[Asia Economy (Daejeon) Reporter Jeong Il-woong] On the 16th, the government appointed Lee Jae-woo (李才雨, 52, photo), the senior judge of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, as the new head of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board.

The new Director Lee, after passing the 34th Administrative Examination, entered public service in 1991 and is regarded as an administrative expert in the field of intellectual property rights, having held key positions in the Patent Office related to invention promotion, planning, personnel, patent informatization, examination, trial, and litigation.

In particular, the new Director Lee contributed to laying the foundation for intellectual property policy as part of the Intellectual Property Great Leap Forward Policy Promotion Team (1998) and handled the introduction of non-traditional trademarks such as sound and scent trademarks, as well as the statutory damages system (2011) to implement the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between Korea and the United States.

Additionally, in 2013, 36 years after the establishment of the Patent Office, he established the Industrial Property Protection Cooperation Bureau to create a system for protecting industrial property rights, exported the patent administration system to the UAE for the first time (2016), and helped open the way for the "Korean Wave" of intellectual property administration.

Within the Patent Office, the new Director Lee is evaluated as having excellent rational work processing ability based on smooth relationships with employees and professional insight.

▲Cheongju (born 1968) ▲Unho High School ▲Cheongju University ▲Head of Litigation Team at Patent Trial and Appeal Board ▲Head of International Trademark Examination Team, Secretary to the Commissioner, Head of Design Examination Division, Head of Education Planning Division at International Intellectual Property Training Institute, Head of Trademark Examination Policy Division, Head of Personnel Division, Head of Operations Support Division, Planning and Coordination Officer, Director of Information Customer Support Bureau, Director of Trademark and Design Examination Bureau, Senior Judge of Patent Trial and Appeal Board

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