South Korea - Trademark Law Firm of the Year
Hanol Law Offices Mona A. Lee Head of the International Trademark Practice Group Tel: +82 2 6004 2500 monalee@hanollaw.com www.hanollaw.com
Located near the Coex Center with convenient access to major downtown districts of Seoul, Hanol Law Offices offers clients comprehensive legal services in a number of areas, including trademark law. Hanol Law Offices was founded 15 years ago with the goal of providing clients with “large firm” quality services with “small firm” attention to clients. Today, the firm is recognised by numerous domestic and foreign clientele as having unsurpassable expertise and experience in a broad spectrum of legal matters including finance, intellectual property (IP), litigation and arbitration, corporate and securities law, and transactions. “We distinguish ourselves by paying close attention to details, analysing problems several levels deeper than the norm, understanding our clients’ business, and communicating our advice clearly, concisely, and precisely so as to respect the valuable time of our clients,” explained Mona Lee, partner. “We want to leave our clients satisfied, or better yet, impressed, such that they cannot help but to continue to use us. As many of our trademark clients are foreign, efficient and insightful communication is highly appreciated by them. Moreover, since our firm includes professionals who have obtained legal education abroad, we make it a priority to incorporate our understanding of how our clients’ legal minds work when performing services for them. We always try to keep in mind the ‘big picture’ and the client’s ultimate goal, so as to avoid giving academic rather than practical advice.” Mona A. Lee is a Delaware licensed attorney and a partner of Hanol Law Offices, where she is Head of the International Trademark Practice Group. She has substantial experience in creating and managing prosecution, licensing, and
enforcement strategies for a wide range of clients whose IP portfolios include patents, trademarks, and industrial designs. Among other things, she has rendered advice on patent and trademark infringement matters, combatting counterfeiting activities, organising and implementing patent and trademark licensing programs, as well as advising on a broad range of prosecution issues and best practices in protecting clients’ IP rights. Her practice also includes corporate and commercial matters for a wide variety of clients. Ms Lee has been identified by Chambers Asia 2009, 2010 and 2011, and Chambers Global 2011 and 2012, as a leading lawyer in the field of intellectual property. She has also been recognised in Asialaw Leading Lawyers 2005 (a Euromoney Institutional Investor Company publication) as one of Asia’s leading business lawyers in recognition of her work in the area of intellectual property. In addition, Ms Lee is an active member of INTA. She is currently Chair of the Roundtables Subcommittee of the INTA Programs Committee and Chair of the Asia Roundtables Project Team. She serves on both the 2012 and 2013 INTA Annual Meeting Project Teams. In that regard, she moderated a session on the topic of brand extensions at INTA’s 2012 Annual Meeting in Washington, DC and will moderate a session on event “ambush” marketing at INTA’s 2013 Annual Meeting in Dallas. Ms Lee has previously served as Co-Chair of the INTA Bulletin Features – Policy & Practice Subcommittee of the INTA Bulletin Committee and as a member of the INTA International Amicus Committee, the Non-Traditional Marks Committee, and the 2009 INTA Annual Meeting Project Team where she was responsible for developing and moderating the East and Southeast Asia session for that Meeting. She was a speaker for the BRIC Countries session at INTA’s 2010 Trademark Administrators Conference. While Ms Lee has written numerous articles for the INTA Bulletin, her most recent published work was for INTA’s online Country Guides, for which she was the South Korea contributor. Before moving to Korea, Ms Lee was with the Wilmington, Delaware firm of Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell where she practised in the areas of corporation and intellectual property law. She has chaired the International Law Section and the Multicultural Judges and Lawyers Section of the Delaware State Bar Association and is a former Law Clerk to The Honorable Louis C. Bechtle, Chief Judge Emeritus, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Ms Lee is a graduate of Temple University School of Law (JD, cum laude, Law Review), Westminster Theological Seminary (MA, Theology, first honours), and the University of Pennsylvania (BA, International Relations).
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