Paul T. LEE
President

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

  • Washington International Patent Academy, LLC,- Vienna, Virginia December 2007- Present   President / Program Director
  • Greenblum & Bernstein, PLC, Reston Virginia    July 2001 – Feb 2009, Director,  Korean Patent Attorney/ US Patent Agent
  • Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C., Garden City, New York  October 2000 – June 2001 International Legal Consultant
  • Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garret & Dunner, L.L.P., Washington DC International Intern August 1999 – August 2000 Liaison between KIPO and USPTO Participating in IP Programs and Meetings of the Firm
  • Korean Industrial Property Office, Daejeon, Korea Supervisory Examiner  March 1998 - August 1999 Heading Information Technology Examination Division, Member of  Examination  Guideline Committee,  Member of Patent Law Revision Committee Director  April 1997 - March 1998 , Heading Division of Electronic Filing System Development Examiner , April 1989 - June 1993, June 1995- August 1996, Examining Patent Applications in Basic Electric Circuitry, RF , Communication Circuit,  Memory Circuits of Semiconductor Chips, Computer Software, etc., Heading Software Examination Guideline Team
  • Yonsei University Graduate Law School, Seoul, Korea Adjunct Professor   March 1998 - June 1999 , Teaching Korean Patent Law and Case Analysis
  • Chungbook University Engineering School, Chongjoo, Korea Adjunct Professor  March 1997 -June 1997 , Teaching Korean Patent Law
  • International Intellectual Property Training Institute, Daeduk, Korea Professor  August 1996 - April 1997 Teaching Korean Patent Law, U.S Patent Law, Claim Analysis PTO Practice, etc Guest Lecturer of WIPO Asian Regional Seminar, Economic Implications of TRIPS Implementa-tion in Korea
    Lecturer of KOICA International Program, Korean Patent System
  • Korean Patent Attorney License  October 1995
  • Ministry of Trade and Industry, Seoul, Korea   May 1986 - April 1989
    Deputy Director                                                                                                
    Electronics Industry Policy Division, Information Technology Policy Division
    Developing Industrial Development Policies in Electronics, Communications and Information  Industries
    Developing Relationships with Industries, Universities and Research Institutes

EDUCATION

  • The George Washington University Law School, Washington D.C.LL.M in IP, August 2000
  • The John Marshall Law School, Chicago, ILLL.M in IP, May 1995
  • University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN Hubert H.Humphrey Program (1 Year Fulbright Scholarship Program), June 1994
  • Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea, Master of Engineering, Electronic Communications, August 1986
  • Bachelor of Engineering, Electronic Communications, February 1983
  • Language Skills
    - Native Korean Speaker, Understand Written Japanese (70%)

PUBLICATIONS

  • Korean Patent System, IIPTI (1996)
  • Various Patent Related Articles, The News Paper of Korean Patent Attorney Association, The Patent Information, etc.
  • Numerical Calculations on Dispersion of The Light Traveling  through A Single-Mode-Index Optical Fiber, Master’s Thesis, Hanyang University(1986)
  • The Patent Wars, Korean Translation(Written by Fred Warshofsky), Sejong Publications (1996)
You can contact Paul T. LEE at paultslee@wipa.us