Dongse Kang - 법무법인(유한) 클라스한결

Overview

Attorney Dongse Kang was previously a Patent Court Judge, Supreme Court Researcher (Intellectual Property Part), and Chief Judge, and now represents leading domestic companies such as Samsung Electronics in cases involving patent law, trademark and design rights, copyright, trade secret infringement, etc., with a success rate of over 90%. Attorney Kang is widely known as one of the top domestic IP attorneys, and was previously a university professor, lectured at various institutions, and has authored over 40 books and papers.

Experience

1984 Passed 26th Bar Exam|
1987 Judicial Research and Training Institute (16th Class)
1987 ~ 1997 Judge, Seoul Civil District Court Southern Branch, Wonju Branch, Northern Branch; Seoul District Court, Eastern Branch
1999 Judge, Patent Court
2000 Researcher, Supreme Court
2002 Chief Judge, Incheon Regional District Court
2000 ~ 2013 Lecturer, Judicial Research and Training Institute and Legal Research and Training Institute
2003 ~ 2005 Attorney, Law Offices of Dong-sae Kang, Myeongmoon Law Firm (Representative Attorney), Yulchon Law Firm (Partner)
2019 Partner, Class Law Firm
2023 Partner, ClassHankyul
2005 ~ 2007 Professor, Chung-Ang University College of Law (Intellectual property law)
2007 ~ 2008 Adjunct Professor, Sungkyun Kwan University Law School
2015 Adjunct Professor, Sejong University
2005 ~ present Examiner (2nd exam), Bar Exam
2005 ~ present Examiner (2nd exam), Patent Bar Exam
2011 ~ present Examiner (law school), Bar Exam Chairman, Incheon Southern District Election Management Committee
2016 ~ 2018 Member, Ministry of Defense Central Serious Casualty Review Committee
2017 ~ present Arbitrator, Korean Commercial Arbitration Board
2017 ~ present Conciliator, Korea Medical Dispute Mediation and Arbitration Agency
2016 ~ present Conciliator, Patent Court
2017 ~ present Director, Sookmyung Academy (Sookmyung Women’s University)
2019 ~ 2021 Chairman, Korea Communications Commission Communications Dispute Committee
2024 ~ present Member, National Veterans Affairs Committee

Education

1977 Daeryun High School
1981 Seoul National University College of Law (LL.B.)
1984 Seoul National University Graduate School of Law
1998 Seoul National University Graduate School of Engineering Top Industrial Strategy Course

Representative Matters

- Represented Samsung Electronics and prevailed in multiple lawsuits involving the Korean language input device (Cheonjiin patent) on Samsung Electronics’ cellphones
- Represented SKT and prevailed in multiple lawsuits involving SKT v. Viber Media, Inc.
- Represented KT and prevailed in multiple lawsuits involving KT v. Ring Free
- Represented Donga Pharmaceuticals and prevailed in multiple pharmaceutical patent lawsuits regarding the cholesterol inhibitor atorvastatin involving Donga Pharmaceuticals v. Pfizer US
- Prevailed in multiple patent lawsuits regarding LCD prism sheets involving LMS v. 3M US
- Represented Samsung Electronics, SKT, and Ceragem in multiple job dispatch lawsuits and prevailed in over a hundred cases
- Achieved a high rate of success and not-guilty verdicts in other standard civil lawsuits

Publications

Book
- Understanding Intellectual Property Rights in the Context of Criminal Law (2003, Saechang Publications)

Article
- Commentary on Legal Issues regarding Standard Provisions of the Unfair Competition Prevention Act (2017)
- Issues regarding Ghost Writers and Moral Rights (2012)
- Relationship between Amendments and Corrections for Patent Specifications (2008)
40 other papers