Woo Sin Sean Park

Senior Associate

F: (860) 748 4437
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Overview

Woo Sin "Sean" Park helps clients with all aspects of litigation related to patent, copyright, trademark and trade secret matters. His works involve a number of subject matters, including toys, video games, artificial intelligence, websites, life science devices, aerospace components, wireless communication devices and software. He has briefed and argued personal jurisdiction, venue, intellectual property validity/invalidity, claim construction, infringement/non-infringement, fee shifting and other issues.

Sean also creates patent, copyright, trademark, and other intellectual property enforcement strategies for clients, including the use of cease and desist letters and Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) take-down notices. He records intellectual property rights with the U.S. Customs and Border Protection and reports trade violations, such as gray market importation restrictions. In addition, Sean negotiates and prepares an array of intellectual property agreements, such as commercial licenses, and conducts due diligence in mergers and acquisitions of Fortune 100 companies.

Sean's representation has spanned courts in a number of jurisdictions, including the U.S. Districts of Connecticut, Massachusetts, Delaware, Western Texas, Southern New York and Eastern Virginia, as well as the Federal Circuit. He has represented clients for Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB) and Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) proceedings at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Sean also organizes copyright portfolios and prosecuted certificates of registration before the U.S. Copyright Office.

Sean serves as adjunct faculty at the University of Connecticut School of Business, where he developed and teaches a class on the legal and ethical environment of Name, Image, and Likeness (NIL) representation. In the course, he covers the role of contract law, data privacy and integrity, and intellectual property laws, as well as laws regulating false advertising and celebrity endorsements in relation to NIL representation.

Sean was a Day Pitney summer apprentice in 2014.

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Education and Credentials

Education
University of Virginia School of Law, J.D., 2015, Online Editor/Quantitative Expert, Virginia Law Review
University of Virginia, M.S., 2012, Biological and Physical Sciences, Specialties in Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics
University of Rochester, B.S., cum laude, Molecular Genetics, 2006
Admissions
State of Connecticut
U.S. District Court, District of Connecticut
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Affiliations
The Janet Bond Arterton Inn of Court (Intellectual Property), President, 2022-2023
Intellectual Property Owners Association (IPO), Copyright and Related Rights Committee
Languages
Korean

Recognition and Community

Recognition

Selected to The Best Lawyers in America list of Ones to Watch (Woodward/White, Inc.) for Intellectual Property Law, 2021-2024; Technology Law, 2021-2024

Selected to the list of Connecticut Super Lawyers Rising Stars (Thomson Reuters), Intellectual Property Litigation, 2019-2023

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