For over 25 years, Judge Rader has been a leading thought leader in the field of intellectual property law  and jurisprudence. His work as Chief Judge, his publications and his work teaching patent law globally to  students, judges and government officials has left an indelible mark on the field of IP law and the protection  of IP rights throughout the world.    Judge Rader has authored approximately 1000 patent decisions and decided over 3000 patent cases as well as approximately 4000 IP cases in total. Judge Rader was appointed to the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit by President George H. W. Bush in 1990 and assumed the duties of Chief Judge on  June 1, 2010. He was appointed to the United States Claims Court (now the U. S. Court of Federal Claims)  by President Ronald W. Reagan in 1988. Before appointment to the Court of Federal Claims, former Chief  Judge Rader served as Minority and Majority Chief Counsel to Subcommittees of the U.S. Senate Committee  on the Judiciary. From 1975 to 1980, he served as Counsel in the House of Representatives for representatives  serving on the Interior, Appropriations, and Ways and Means Committees. Judge Rader stepped down from  Chief Judge position on May 30, 2014 and retired from the bench on June 30, 2014.    Since leaving the bench, Judge Rader has founded the Rader Group, focusing on arbitration, mediation, and  legal consulting and legal education services. Since 2014, Judge Rader has presided over major arbitration  under UCC rules in Paris; conducted mediations to settle ongoing litigation; joined law faculty at Tsinghua  University; conducted full-credit course at leading law schools in D.C., Seattle, Santa Clara, Bangkok, Seoul,  Tokyo, Munich, consulted with major corporations and law firms on IP policy and litigation, and advised foreign  governments on international IP standards. He continues to advocate improvements in innovation policy through  speaking engagements worldwide.    Judge Rader's most prized title may well be "Professor Rader." As Professor, Judge Rader has taught courses  on patent law and other advanced intellectual property courses at The George Washington University Law School,  University of Virginia School of Law, Georgetown University Law Center, the Munich Intellectual Property Law Center,  and other university programs in Tokyo, Taipei, New Delhi, and Beijing. He received a B.A. in English fromBrigham  Young University in 1974 and a J.D. from George Washington University Law School in 1978. Judge Rader has  received the Gold Medal of LES International in 2014 and has been inducted into the IAM IP Hall of Fame in 2011.

Heli Pihlajamaa, Director Patent Law, EPO Munich, studied Law at Helsinki University and at Max  Planck Institute in Munich. Heli acts as legal member in opposition cases and advises EPO higher  management on policy issues and legal amendments. She is responsible for supporting the EPO  policy by developing, strengthening and promoting the EPC, including proposals for legal changes,  compliance of operations with patent law-related norms and case law. Before joining the EPO  she worked in both the private and public sectors.   Heli has written several books and articles on patent law in Finnish.

<Education> University of Iowa, College of Law * J.D. Degree * LL.M (International & Comparative Law) Korea University, College of Law * Bachelor’s in Law * Master of International Law   <Career> 2016~present     Director General, Intellectual Property Protection & International Cooperation Bureau, KIPO  2016~present     Visiting Professor, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) 2015~2016         Senior Executive Program at the Central Officials Training Institute 2013~2015        Director General, Trademark & Design Examination Bureau, KIPO 2012~2013        Director General, Planning and Coordination Bureau, KIPO  2012                   Presiding Administrative Trademark Judge, the 3rd Board of Trial and Appeal  2011~2012        Director General, IP Promotion Bureau, Presidential Council on IP  2013                   Chair of the 2nd TM5 Mid-term and Annual Meetings 2010~2011        Senior Director, Trademark Examination Policy Division, KIPO  2007~2010        Representative to WIPO & WTO, Korean Mission in Geneva  2009                   Chair of the WIPO General Assembly (extraordinary session)  2007~2009        Vice Chair of the WIPO General Assembly  2007                   Coordinator of the Asian Group in WIPO  2004~2007        Director, Information Development Division, KIPO  2004~2004        Head, KIPO Reformation Team  2004~2007        Adjunct Professor, Pai Chai University, Daejeon, Korea

Dr. Joo Sup Kim is a Presiding Administrative Judge of IPTAB at KIPO. He is lead judge of the 10th  board of complex technology including chemical, mechanical, electrical, optical, and constructional  technologies. Dr. Kim was a vice president and head of the team responsible for IP litigation, licensing,  counseling, open source and copyright of intellectual property at LG Electronics, Inc(LGE).   Dr. Kim`s career in the IP industry spans over 30 years, with extensive experience in IP litigation and  licensing at LGE and LG affiliates ( including LG Display and LG Semicon). He has been involved in IP  matters covering a number of technologies, including consumer electronics, liquid crystal displays,  organic light-emitting diodes, semiconductors, and telecommunications. His expertise includes both  offensive and defensive matters through strategic litigation and licensing. He handled over 1,000  litigations and negotiations, among which there are over 50 trials at the court. In addition, he has  successfully managed and closed numerous IP transactions, M&A transactions and alliances.  He formed a licensing company called Global OLED technologies LLP. He was listed two times as  a member of 40 Market makers of Worldwide IP in 2016 and 2017 by IAM.   Dr. Kim received a Ph.D., in law from Kookmin University, Korea, a master`s degree in IP law from  Franklin Pierce Law Centre in the United States and a bachelor`s degree in electronics and electrical  engineering from Hanyang University, Korea.

Prof. Youngtack Shim received his B.S. and M.S. in chemical engineering from Seoul National  University and KAIST (both in Korea). Prof. Shim received his PhD in biomedical engineering and JD,  both from Duke University (U.S.). He then worked as a patent attorney for the major U.S. patent law -firms such as Fish & Richardson and Pennie & Edmonds. After returning to Korea, Prof. Shim worked  as the COO in the Technology Licensing Office at his alma mater (SNU) and then managed “Intellectual  Ventures Korea” as the President. Almost for a decade, he then had served his alma mater as the Invited  Professor of Law at the School of Law at SNU, while teaching patent law and commercialization.  Prof. Shim is now a professor at SUNY Korea (Songdo, Korea), while actively involved in a Korean software  startup “Firstface” as the Co-CEO. Inventor Shim is still inventing in anytime and anywhere he sees fit.

Scott Warren is a partner in our Tokyo office and leads a team that specializes in cybersecurity,  data privacy and digital data disclosures in Japan and Asia. He advises on digital compliance,  eDiscovery and corporate data privacy for global and local corporations. He also has significant  experience in compliance, intellectual property, litigation, dispute resolution and government regulatory  and internal investigations. He has provided advice to global multinational corporations in the hi-tech,  software, retail, healthcare, pharmaceutical, automotive, banking, trading, telecommunications and  professional services industries.   Scott started his career as a civil litigator in California and is experienced in all phases of disputes  resolution, from pleadings through conducting jury trials. He moved to Japan in 1993 and wrote the  Japan Employers Handbook for CCH, a large international publishing company. While general counsel  at Sega Corporation, he handled various intellectual property issues, including licensing and anti -counterfeiting actions on infringers on every continent except Antarctica. He also oversaw Sega’s  internal and regulatory investigations, including anti-competition, US International Trade Commission  and safety reporting matters.     As senior attorney for Microsoft, Scott was responsible for the Xbox launch in Japan, Korea, Hong Kong,  Taiwan and Singapore. He was the head of anti-piracy for Xbox worldwide, head of anti-piracy for all  Microsoft products in North Asia and served in the region as the head of Internet Safety, working with law  enforcement and governments to better protect the public from cyber threats. He handled internal  cyberbreach issues from a legal perspective. In this capacity, he became involved with The Society for  the Policing of Cyberspace, a nonprofit organization, where he serves on the executive board.   He was the managing director of Kroll in Japan and regional managing director of Kroll Ontrack in Asia,  providing clients with investigative, computer forensics and eDiscovery services. Later, he opened Epiq  Systems in Japan and built the team and services in order to provide eDiscovery solutions to global  organizations. Many of these investigations involved antitrust, bribery, SEC and other regulatory matters.  Having served as in-house counsel for more than 13 years and having built two successful legal services  companies in Asia, Scott brings a unique understanding, expertise and global perspective to his clients.   Scott is also a Certified International Counter-Cyber Crime Professional and is certified as a Member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb).

<Education> University of Wisconsin, Law School, Scientiae Juridicae Doctor(SJD)   < Career > 2017~Present      Intellectual Property Jobs Forum, Chairman 2018~Present      National Entrepreneurship College Council, Vice-chairman 2018~Present      Korea Industrial Security Research Institute, Vice-president 2016~Present      Industrial Technology Dispute Mediation Committee, Member 2016~Present      Copyright Protection Review Committee, Member 2016~Present      National Intellectual Property Committee Expert committee 2011~2012           Visiting scholar, United Nations Commission on International Trade Law 2017~Present      Korea ICT Convergence Association, Vice-president 2008~2016          Academy of Technical Material Escrows Development, President 2010~2011          Chung-nam Administrative Tribunal, Member

<Education>   2014  KAIST Graduate School of Future and Strategy, Advanced National Future Strategy Program   1996  Ph. D., in Chemistry , Seoul National University   1990  M.S., in Chemistry , Seoul National University   1988  B. S., in Chemistry , Seoul National University       <Career>   2017-Present   Member of Advisory Committee, Korea Intellectual Property Tribunal   2017-Present   Member of Mediation and Arbitration Committee on Seoul High Court   2016-Present   Shin & Kim (Beop-mu Beop-in Sejong in Korean)   2017               Vice president of Korea Patent Attorneys Association   2013-2015     Director, PCT International Search & Preliminary Exam. Division, KIPO   2012               Director, Convergence Technology Exam. Division, KIPO   2010-2011     Professional Technical Advisor, Patent Court of Korea   2010-2011     Adjunct Professor, KAIST Master Program of Intellectual Property   1996-2009     Patent Examiner, Quality Reviewer(KIPO), Senior Administrative Patent Judge,   Part Leader of Examiner(KIPO), Administrative Judicial Scholar and Administrative Solicitor

Justin Choi is a Professor of ‘Cybercrime & Criminal Investigation’ at the Korean National   Police University (KNPU), and also is the Director of the Research and Business Development   Center of KNPU. Before joining the KNPU in 2013, Justin was an Assistant Professor of   Police Science at the Daejeon University in Korea since March 2011. Justin received his   doctorate degree in Security Services from Yongin University in Korea in 2010, completed his   master’s degree programs at both the University of Kent at Canterbury [in the U.K.] in 1995   and Yonsei University in Seoul, Korea, in 1993, and got his undergraduate degree in Public   Administration from the Korean National Police University (KNPU) in 1987.     Prior to his academic career, Justin Choi was the Global Security Director of NHN Corp.,   currently ‘Naver Corporation’. His responsibilities covered risk management, corporate   security, information protection, anti-cybercrime programs, and external relations, including   liaison with law enforcement agencies. Justin was the Security Program Manager of IBM   Korea, Inc., before joining NHN Corp. in June 2005. He has worked for IBM for seven years,   from 1998 until 2005, as the Country Security Manager of Korea.     Justin Choi has served eleven years from 1987 as an Inspector with the Korean National   Police Agency (KNPA). Justin was seconded to the Presidential Security Service in 1991 as the   liaison officer responsible for analyzing foreign intelligence collected and/or reported from a   variety of governmental agencies, and then to the U.K. for two years from 1993 to conduct his   research study on International Relations. Since 1995, Justin was the East-Asian Regional   Contact Officer for the INTERPOL—the National Central Bureau of Korea—in charge of   organized and financial crimes, including computer crimes, and also led the founding of   'Hacking Investigations Squad'—the Cyber-Terror Response Center—of the KNPA.     Justin received a dozen awards during his corporate career, including one from the CEO &   Chairman of IBM, for his efforts and excellent contribution to IBM’s worldwide security   programs as part of the IBM’s Security Team during the 27th Olympic Games in Sydney and at   the IBM’s PartnerWorld in Las Vegas. Justin has also received numerous prestigious awards   during his law enforcement career, including “Top on the List Award” from the Prime Minister   of Korea, “Man of Honor Award” from the Commissioner of KNPA, and many others.     Justin's credentials include the Certified Information System Security Professional (CISSP)   and the Certified Business Continuity Professional, etc. Justin has co-written four books and   over twenty-five academic articles in areas ranging from police administration, including   cyber- and transnational crimes, to corporate/industrial security. Justin Choi was the 2nd   President of Korea Corporate Security Managers’ Council (KCSMC) and the 3rd President of   the Korea CPTED Association, and has been the Chair of International Consultants Group on   Infra [Security] for UNODC’s “Virtual Forum against Cybercrime (VFAC)” program.

<Education> BS/MS/Ph. D in Computer Engineering, Sungkyunkwan Univ.   <Career> President of Korea Security Ethics Association President of Korea Information Science Education Federation Vice president of Korea Association for Industrial Security Advisory committee member of CIO in Ministry of National Defense Advisory committee member of Digital Forensics in Supreme Prosecutors’ Office Authentication committee member of ISMS in Financial Security Institute Cyber Security Industry Dispute Mediation Committee member in Ministry of Science and ICT