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Intellectual Property Law Firm of the Year Korea

Firm Profile

Hanol Law Offices provides a full range of trademark services, from selection, clearance, prosecution, and maintenance, to portfolio management and enforcement.

We also conduct due diligence, engage in litigation, and provide transactional services, not only covering the area of trademarks, but also extending into domain name and copyright issues. We also regularly work with the Customs service and investigators to combat counterfeiting activities occurring both on and off line.

Mona A. Lee

practice also includes corporate and commercial matters for a wide variety of clients.

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, combating counterfeiting activities, organizing and implementing patent and trademark licensing programs, a broad range of prosecution issues, and best practices in protecting clients’ IP rights. Her

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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 recognized 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. Through her efforts at her previous firm, the firm was awarded Global Law Expert’s 2011 Award for “Trademark Law Firm of the Year for South Korea”, Lawyer Monthly Magazine’s 2011 Award for “Intellectual Property Law Firm of the Year for South Korea”, and Corporate Intl Magazine’s 2010 Legal Award for “Trademark Law Firm of the Year for South Korea”.

In addition, Ms. Lee is an active member of INTA. She currently is Chair of the Roundtables Subcommittee of the INTA Programs Committee and Chair of the Asia Roundtables Project Team. She also 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, D.C. 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 also 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 practiced 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 (J.D., cum laude, Law Review), Westminster Theological Seminary (M.A., Theology, first honors), and the University of Pennsylvania (B.A., International Relations).

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The firm’s trademark clients span from large multinationals to individuals participating in a wide variety of industries. In that regard, we are fortunate to have acquired substantial experience in handling a broad and diverse spectrum of issues.

Hanol’s trademark group prior to merging with the firm had been recognized by such publications as Chambers, Global Law Expert, Lawyer Monthly Magazine, and Corporate Intl Magazine.

Contact:

Mona A. Lee Hanol Law Offices 6th Floor City Air Tower

159-9 Samsung-dong, Gangnam-gu Seoul, South Korea, 135-973

Tel: +82-2-6004-2500 Email: monalee@hanollaw.com