Keum Nang Park

Practice Areas

IP, Healthcare, Life Science

Career

Co-head of the Healthcare/Life Science Group at LEE & KO, Leading Expert in Healthcare/Life Science Practice Area including Multi-Jurisdictional Patent Litigations covering Pharmaceuticals, Biotech Drugs, Cosmetics, Food, Food additives, Chemicals, Medical device and Healthcare Regulation, including Drug Price matter, etc. Recognized as one of “Asia's Top 15 Female Lawyers” in ALB, a “Leading Lawyer” in Intellectual Property Law Fields by Legal Times, a “Leading Lawyer” in Healthcare Law Fields by Legal Times, “Patent Star”, “MIP IP Star”, “Global Top 250 Women in IP”, “Benchmark Litigation Asia Pacific, IP STARS’, “Ranked Lawyers” for IP From Chambers Global and “Leading Legal Professionals” for IP From Chambers Asia-Pacific. Received “Award from the Minister of MFDS” for her contribution to the pharmaceutical industry and “GreenCross Regulatory Sciences Award from The Korean Society of Food, Drug and Cosmetic Regulatory Sciences. Visiting Scholar at Harvard Law School, LL.M at BU(2007), Seoul National University M.S(Pharmacology), Seoul National University B.S(Pharmacy 1990)

• Lead Counsel for the Patentee in the Biggest Patent Dispute ever in Korea related to Heart Failure Treatment Patent

• Patent Dispute related to Diaper, which involved the Largest Monetary Damages Amount in Korean History

• A number of Pharmaceutical and Biotech Patent Disputes, including a Favorable Decision in a Pharmaceutical Patent Infringement Preliminary Injunction Suit, which changed a Decades-Repeated Supreme Court precedent in the Inventiveness Standard for Selection Invention Patent

• Industry-leading Work related to Drug Price, including successfully obtaining for the first time in Korea the Suspension of the original drug price reduction due to generic entry, and other pioneering work

• Responsive Work regarding Administrative Disposition from MFDS and Ministry of Health and Welfare

• Regulatory Work in Healthcare Industry including Drug and Medical device

Professional Memberships

Korean Bar, Korean Patent Bar, Pharmacist

Publications

Presentation at Life Science Patent Network North America–Fall 2024(“Korean Biopharma's Global Expansion: Evolving Patent Strategies and Regulatory Landscape”) (2024); Patent Term Extension of Pharmaceutical Patent and the Role of the Regulatory Agency(FDC regulatory Science Academy) 2024, Chambers Global Practice Guides Life Sciences 2023~2022, Patent Approval Linkage System (MFDS RA Education Program, Lecturer, 2020~2022); 2020 Life Sciences South Korea, Lexology Getting The Deal Through; Challenges for Biosimilars In Korean Market (Global Biosimilar Summit, Munich, Presentation speaker, 2019); Successful Challenges to Korea Health Insurance Regulator’s 13-years Old System of Automatic Reduction of Original Drug Price (Legal 500, 2019); Evidence in Korean Patent Infringement (APAA Auckland Workshop, Speaker, 2017);Taking Control of your IP Dispute using ADR (APAA Penang ADR Workshop, Speaker, 2014); South Korea’s Patent-Approval Linkage System,(Intellectual Asset Management Magazine, 2014); Patentability of Chemical and Pharmaceutical Inventions-Enantiomer Invention, Crystalline Invention, and Selection Invention (Law & Technology, 2013); 'Chemical/Pharmaceutical Patent's Patentability,' (Korea-US IP Judicial Conference, Speaker, 2013); Life Science Session 'Stem Cell Therapy Regulation in Korea,' (IBA Boston Conference , Speaker, 2013); 'Patentability of Pharmaceutical Inventions,' (Judicial Training Seminar, 2013); 'Life Sciences South Korea Part,' (The Law and Leading Lawyers Worldwide, 2011); 'Understanding the Patent System,' (Seoul National University, College of Pharmacy, 2010)