Mr. Sungmin Kim is a patent attorney at Lee & Mock IP and joined the firm in 2020. He passed the Korean Patent Attorney Examination in 2016, and since then has established and protected intellectual property rights for a diverse range of corporate clients.

Mr. Kim specializes in prosecution, utility models, and design matters within cutting-edge technology sectors, including e-cigarettes, mobile devices, automotive technologies, medical devices, inkjet devices, and solar cells. Beyond standard prosecution, he leverages deep expertise in prior-art searches, Freedom-to-Operate (FTO) analyses, invalidity searches, and IP trend analyses.
Notably, Mr. Kim provides tailored, optimized services across a broad client spectrum, ranging from comprehensive prosecution and advisory services for conglomerates to IP-driven growth strategy consulting for small-and-medium enterprises (SMEs) and startups.