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Intellectual Property
- AI
- AI Center
- Antitrust & Competition
- Asia Practice Group
- Blockchain
- China Desk
- Contents/Media
- ESG Sustainability Center
- Finance / Fintech
- General Corporate/M&A
- Global Business
- Healthcare
- Human Resources/Labor Relations
- Intellectual Property
- Litigation / Dispute Resolution – Corporate Clients
- Litigation / Dispute Resolution – Individual Clients
- Litigation / Dispute Resolution – Overseas clients
- Mobility/Logistics
- Policy Center
- Privacy Information/Data
- Real Estate/Construction
- Serious Accidents Prevention
- Space/Aerospace
- Startup
- VC/PE
Introduction
DLG’s IP Practice Group is led by a former IP partner of Bae, Kim & Lee, and includes engineers-turned-lawyers with deep industry expertise. The team provides strategic and comprehensive IP advice across management, commercialization, and dispute resolution.
We specialize in ICT, IoT, entertainment, healthcare, AI, blockchain, mobility, and XR—offering systematic support for startups at early stages through to listed companies..
We help clients build tailored patent portfolios, advise on employee inventions, and litigate complex infringement and invalidation actions. For unregistered IP, we design step-by-step preventive systems against leakage or misappropriation by competitors or insiders, and offer swift remedial measures.
Our team protects clients’ legitimate rights through customized responses and enforcement strategies, ensuring their intangible assets are secure and positioned for growth.
We specialize in ICT, IoT, entertainment, healthcare, AI, blockchain, mobility, and XR—offering systematic support for startups at early stages through to listed companies..
We help clients build tailored patent portfolios, advise on employee inventions, and litigate complex infringement and invalidation actions. For unregistered IP, we design step-by-step preventive systems against leakage or misappropriation by competitors or insiders, and offer swift remedial measures.
Our team protects clients’ legitimate rights through customized responses and enforcement strategies, ensuring their intangible assets are secure and positioned for growth.
Key Services
- Patent, trademark, and design infringement/invalidation litigation
- Advisory on trade secret protection and representation in related civil/criminal litigation
- Copyright contracts, licensing and dispute resolution
- IP licensing, tech transfer, R&D joint ventures
- IP due diligence in M&A and restructuring
- Employee invention advisory and litigation
- Strategic portfolio planning for industrial property rights
- IP consulting for tech-based IPOs and special listing exemptions, including special listing exemptions under Korea’s technology-growth listing rules
Representative Cases
- Advisory and litigation over trade secret misappropriation concerning EV battery materials, cells, modules, and inspection/testing processes
- Criminal and civil proceedings over LNG shipbuilding tech leak
- Auto parts patent litigation and invalidation for a foreign firm
- Employee invention litigation over steelmaking technology
- AI processor (NPU) trade secret litigation
- Tech transfer licensing negotiation for national research institute
- Global game IP and Netflix licensing agreements
- Open-source licensing compliance advisory
- ITC patent litigation advisory for Korean manufacturer
- Joint new drug development and licensing dispute between a Korean pharmaceutical firm and a global company
