Shin & Kim provides the following services in connection with patent matters.

• Patent application filing and registration strategies
• Structuring and maintaining patent portfolios
• Freedom-to-operate (FTO) analysis to assess potential patent infringement risks prior to product development and release
• Preliminary injunction to prohibit patent infringement and patent infringement proceedings 
• Patent invalidation trial, trial for confirmation of the scope of right and revocation trial for judgment
• Litigation related to, management of, and compensation for employee invention
• Patent due diligence and patent valuation
• Patent licensing, technology transfer and related disputes

Electrical/Mechanical

• Prohibition of patent infringement and compensation for damages between a display manufacturer and a display equipment manufacturer (3D lamination sector)
• Patent invalidation trial between domestic display manufacturers (LCD sector)
• Prohibition of patent infringement between a domestic vaccine manufacturer and a global pharmaceutical company (pneumococcal conjugate vaccine sector)
• Prohibition of patent infringement and compensation for damages among three motor vehicle parts manufacturers (autonomous driving vehicle sector)
• Patent invalidation and infringement lawsuit between LNG tank welding equipment manufacturers (automated LNG tank welding device sector)
• Preliminary injunction proceedings on prohibition of patent infringement and the case on merits, and patent invalidation trial, between semiconductor drying equipment manufacturers (semiconductor cleaning equipment sector)
• WIPS-related patent infringement lawsuit between information security companies (wireless intrusion prevention system sector)
• Patent invalidation trial and claim for registration of cancellation of exclusive license related to cascade dehumidification and cooling technology between a state research institution and an air-conditioning equipment manufacturer (dehumidification and cooling system sector)
• Patent infringement lawsuit between electronic payment companies (card payment system sector)
• Patent invalidation trial between a global steel manufacturer and a domestic steel manufacturer (hot stamping technology)
• Patent invalidation trial and infringement lawsuit related to air cushion between cosmetics companies (cosmetics sector)
• Cancellation of decision in a trial for the confirmation of the scope of right between Chinese valve manufacturers (electric valve sector)
• Patent infringement lawsuit between a global semiconductor equipment manufacturer and a domestic semiconductor component manufacturer (semiconductor equipment component sector)
• Patent infringement lawsuit between electronic payment companies (POS terminal program sector)
• Licensing negotiations following a wiper-related patent infringement warning between a global motor vehicle component manufacturer and a domestic wiper manufacturer (counsel for the domestic manufacturer, conclusion with the execution of a license agreement)
• Patent infringement lawsuit and Inter Partes Review in the U.S. related to the push – connect fitting patent and related settlement

Chemical/Pharmaceutical/Biomedical

• Claim for performance of patent right transfer and registration procedures between biotechnology companies (bacteriophage sector)
• Confirmation of the scope of right between cosmetic manufacturers (face mask sector)
• Patent invalidation trial between in vitro diagnostics companies (optical blood analyzer sector)
• Patent dispute related to photoinitiator between a domestic chemical company and a global chemical company
• Arbitration related to a dispute over a commercialization agreement on VM202 gene therapy for the indications of CAD, DPN, DFU and ALS
• Patent invalidation trial related to the use patent for crystalline-form mirabegron and the treatment of overactive bladder
• Patent invalidation trial of a patent for dapagliflozin, the world's best-selling diabetes medicine
• Patent dispute related to sodium meta-arsenite, a widely used anticancer and pain management medicine
• Patent dispute related to rosuvastatin for the treatment of heterozygous familial hypercholesterolemia
• Patent invalidation trial and infringement lawsuit between Dolutegravir and Bictegravir as second-generation HIV medicines
• Preliminary injunction proceedings and the case on merits, and patent invalidation trial related to the patent for Entresto, a heart failure medicine based on a supramolecular complex
• Claim for compensation for damages with respect to the price of an original medicine reduced due to the release of a generic medicine (first “drug price reduction lawsuit” in Korea; Shin & Kim won the Korean Legal Award for handling this case)
• Stay of execution of a reduction in the price of an original medicine due to the introduction of a generic medicine (first such lawsuit in Korea)
• Prohibition of infringement related to the patent for a pneumococcal protein conjugate vaccine
• Patent invalidation trial and the confirmation of the scope of right concerning a composition for the treatment of hypertension
• Patent infringement and item approval strategy for a salt-modified medicine for the treatment of gastroesophageal reflux disease
• Patent infringement lawsuit and claim for compensation for damages related to Exelon Patch, a medicine for Alzheimer’s disease