Chee Joong Kim Partner, Attorney at Law, Patent Attorney Patent & Trademark Litigation

Barun IP & Law

Qualification & work experience

Mr. Chee Joong Kim received both of his bachelor's and master's degrees in law from the Seoul National University. In 1978 Mr. Kim passed the state bar exam and finished his articling in 1980 at the Judicial Training and Research Institute of Korea. In 1983, he became an associate lawyer for the firm of Kim & Chang and had worked there until the very next year. From 1984 to 1986, during the three-year period, he had practiced law as a judge at the Incheon District Court. Then, for the next three years between 1986 and 1989, he had served as a judge at the Seoul Civil District Court. In 1989, he was transferred to the Gimcheon Branch Court and had served as judge there until the very next year. In the same year, upon concluding his service at the Gimcheon Court, he had decided to leave for the United States and enrolled at the program offered by the University of California at Berkeley. He returned to Korea in 1991, was assigned to the Daegu Court in the same year, and had served as judge there until year 1992. Then from the same year to the very next, he served as judge in the Seoul High Court. In 1993, he began to conduct research on labor and administrative cases as judicial researcher at the Supreme Court and had proceeded with his work there until 1996. From 1996 to 1997, he served as senior judge at the Gangneung Branch Court. From 1997 to 1998, he was transferred to the Chuncheon Branch Court and served as Chief Judge. From 1998 to 1999, he served as senior judge at the Sungnam Branch Court. From 1999 to 2000, he served as senior judge at the Seoul Eastern District Court. From 2002 to 2004, he served as senior judge at the Korean Patent Court. From 2004 to 2005, he served as senior judge at the Seoul High Court. Since 2005, he has been working as a partner attorney at the Barun Law.