SOUTH KOREA Law and Practice Contributed by: Hwansung Park, Eunwoo (Vera) Lee, Hankil D. Kang and Jung Heo, Lee & Ko
governs these matters. Accordingly, suits regarding the creation, validity, or extinction of intellectual prop- erty rights established by registration or deposit may be filed exclusively with South Korean courts if such rights are registered or an application for registration has been filed in South Korea; suits concerning con- tracts such as transfer of intellectual property rights, establishment of security interests, licenses, and the like may be filed with South Korean courts where the intellectual property right is protected, used, or exer- cised in South Korea or the right relating to the intel- lectual property is registered in South Korea; and suits for infringement of intellectual property rights may be filed with South Korean courts where the infringing act is committed in South Korea, the result of the infringe- ment occurs in South Korea, or the infringing act is directed toward South Korea. As to the choice of law, the protection of intellectual property rights shall be governed by the law of the place where the infringe- ment occurs.
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