MiH Suhn KOH
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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
The Nathe Law Group PLLC, Alexandria, Virginia
Associate Patent Attorney, October 2006 - present
. Due Diligence - FTO, Invalidity, and Non-infringement opinion (search,
analysis and drafting).
. Prosecution - Office actions from USPTO, EPO, JPO, etc., Appeal to
BAPI, and Reexaminations.
. New applications - drafting provisional and nonprovisional patent
applications.
. Firm Clients - Mostly US, German, Japanese and Korean
pharmaceutical/biotech companies, including
Stiefel (GSK), Nycomed and Hisamitsu Pharma., among
others.
Central International Law Firm, Seoul, Korea,
Senior Patent Attorney, February 1999 - July 2005
. Patent prosecution and litigation for US, European and Japanese
pharmaceutical/biological companies, including Merck Co., Pfizer,
Aventis, Wyeth, among others.
i) For prosecution:
- Worked for cases of Official Action, Opposition, Trials and Appeals
to the Patent Court and the Supreme Court
ii) For litigation:
- Worked claim construction, technology analysis and drafting
infringement opinions, and infringement suit before the court.
ii) Technology Due diligence for Ranbaxy (US):
. Drafting new applications for domestic pharmaceutical companies and
individual inventors.
. Business trip to Europe (2001), Attending AIPPI (2001) and INTA (2002).
Y.P.Lee, Mock and Partners, Seoul, Korea
Patent Attorney December 1997-January 1999
. Drafting new applications for domestic companies; and working for
various patent prosecution cases including Official Actions and trials
before the KIPO.
PHARMACIST 1991-1997
. PHARMACY, in Korea
Pharmacist, 1995-1997
. Korea Institute of Industry and Technology Information, Seoul, Korea
Part time 1993-1994
Preparing database material for Patents
. DAEWOONG PHARMACEUTICAL CO. LTD., Seoul, South Korea
Pharmacist in R&D Department, 1991-1992
EDUCATION
Georgetown University Law Center, Washington DC
LL.M. May 2006, Dean's list
Related Coursework: Patent Law; Advanced Patent Law Seminar; International
Protection of Intellectual
Property through WTO; Chemical/Biological Patent Law at
GWU
Activities: Foreign Lawyers at Georgetown; Participated in American
Intellectual Property Law Association
(AIPLA) Annual Meeting and International Judge Meeting by IPO in
DC, 2005
Paper: Experimental Use Exemption in Merck v. Integra (available upon
request)
The Graduate School of Law, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea
LL.M. in Intellectual Property Law, February 1999
Honors: Received Letter of Commendation at each semester.
Master's Thesis: Patent Protection for pharmaceutical Inventions in Korea
Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
B.S. in Pharmacology, February 1991
Activities: Class Representative (1990)
Paper: Liposome; My way (published as a part of the book, The Light and
Shade of Generation 386, p152-59, Edited by SNU Professor Sangzin Han,
2003.6)
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP
Registered to practice before the USPTO (Reg. No. 65,080)
A member of the New York State Bar Association (ID No. 733944)
A member of the American Bar Association
A Korean Patent Attorney
A Licensed Korean Pharmacist
PAPERS
"Clinical Trials under Pharmaceutical Law and Patent Infringement"
(Published in A Collection of Papers by The 11th Patent Attorney under
Training, 1999; and also in Korean AIPPI Journal, March and April 2000).
"Case study on Merck v. Integra Lifesciences," 2005 (Not published).