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Seung Ho Lee, Esq

Patent Attorney, admitted in NY


Korean Patent Attorney

Mr. Lee has over twenty years of experience in all aspects of domestic and international patent law. He has been involved in numerous patent infringement lawsuits, representing both plaintiffs and defendants. Mr. Lee has extensive experience in patent prosecution and a wide range of related activities, including providing patentability, validity, and infringement opinions, as well as client counseling. He is licensed to practice before the Korean Patent Office and has prosecuted numerous patents in Korea for over a decade.

 

Mr. Lee holds a B.S. and M.S. in Control and Instrumentation Engineering from Seoul National University. He also worked at the IP Center of Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., a world-renowned electronics manufacturing company, handling various patent-related litigations and licensing matters.

 

During his career as a patent attorney, Mr. Lee has focused on securing and enforcing standard essential patents (SEPs), particularly in technologies such as 3G CDMA-2000/WCDMA, 4G LTE, 5G NR, and 802.11 WIFI. Over the past decade, dozens of patents he has registered have been included in several patent pools, including Avanci, and have been utilized in multiple patent litigations in the United States. He is one of the few experts specialized in securing and enforcing patents related to the physical layer in various fields of communication standard patents.

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Bar Admissions

New York

United States Patent and Trademark Office 

Intellectual Property Office of Korea

Education

Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA, Juris Doctor, 2005
Seoul National Univ., Seoul, Korea, MS in Control and Instrumentation Engineering, 1993 

Seoul National Univ., Seoul, Korea, BS in Control and Instrumentation Engineering, 1991

Experience

PnK IP, LLC, of-counsel (2024 - present)

Insight Law Group, PLLC, managing attorney (2015-2024)

Samsung Electronics, IP Center, senior legal counsel (2013-2015)
H.C. Park & Associates, PLC, associate attorney (2011-2012) 

Echelon Law Group, P.C., associate attorney (2009-2011)

Rothwell, Figg, Ernst & Manbeck, P.C., associate attorney (2008-2009)

Firstlaw Lee & Ko, KR patent attorney (1996-2002, 2006-2008)

Representative Litigation Matters 

Apple v. Samsung Electronics Co. (worldwide, 2012-) (WCDMA, LTE)

Samsung Electronics Co. v. NVIDIA Corp. (ITC, 2015)  
Rembrandt Wireless Techs., LP v. Samsung Electronics Co. (EDTX, 2015) (Bluetooth 2.0)  

WiAV Networks, LLC. v. Hewlett-Packard Co. (N.D. Cal., 2010) (GSM, HSDPA, WCDMA, etc.) 

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