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Nari Lee is the professor intellectual property at Hanken School of Economics and the deputy director of the IPR University center. She has joined Hanken faculty in 2012. She has studied law at Ewha Womans University in Korea and at Kyushu University, Japan (LL.M), and holds a Ph.D from University of Eastern Finland and Doctor of Laws (LL.D) degree from Kyushu University, Japan. Since 1996, she has researched and taught in the area of intellectual property and international trade in universities in Europe, Asia and USA. Her research experience includes post of visiting associate professor at Hokkaido Univeristy(2007-2011), an affiliated research fellow at Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property and Competition in Munich, Germany (2012-2014), Research Visitor at University of Cambridge (2016, 2019), Senior Global Hauser Fellow at New York University (NYU) Law School (2017), a Designated Professor, at the Center for Asian Legal Exchange at Nagoya University, Japan (2019). In 2025 Spring, she has been a visiting faculty at Waseda University's Research Center for the Legal System of Intellectual Property (RCLIP).
Research areas
- Personalized medicine, Pharmaceutical Innovation and IP law
- Fairness, Morality and Intellectual Property
- Open and Alternative Innovation Regimes and Intellectual Property
- Disruptive Innovations (e.g. 3DP, AIs, Biogenetic technology) and intellectual property law and policy
- Trade Secret Protection and IP law
- EU Data Regulations
Education information
Doctor of Laws, Kyushu University, Japan, 2002Additional Education Information
Doctor of Philosophy, (Ph.D.) University of Eastern Finland. 2010
External positions
Visiting Faculty / Research Fellow, Waseda University
02.04.2025 → 19.06.2025
Research Visitor, University of Cambridge
05.03.2019 → 05.09.2019
Designated Professor, Nagoya University
01.01.2019 → 31.03.2019
Senior Global Research Fellow, New York University
01.01.2017 → 31.05.2017
Research Visitor , University of Cambridge
01.07.2016 → 30.09.2016
Keywords
- 513 Law
- Intellectual Property Law
- patent law
- law and policy
- theory of intellectual property
- open innovation
- international trade law
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Specialized IP Courts in China - Judicial Governance of Intellectual Property Rights
Lee, N. R. & Zhang, L., 09.11.2017, In: International Review of Intellectual Property and Competition Law. 48, 8, p. 900-924Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review
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The Private and Non-commercial Use Defence Revisited: The Case of 3D Printing Technologies
Ballardini, R. & Lee, N. R., 2017, 3D Printing, Intellectual Property and Innovation: Insights from Law and Technology. Ballardini, R. M., Norrgård, M. & Partanen, J. (eds.). Alphen aan den Rijn: Kluwer Law InternationalResearch output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Scientific › peer-review
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Revisiting the principle of technological neutrality in patent protection in the age of 3D printing technology and cloud computing
Lee, N., 2016, TRIPS plus 20: From Trade Rules to Market Principles. Ullrich, H., Hilty, R. M., Lamping, M. & Drexl, J. (eds.). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, p. 361-388 27 p. (MPI Studies on Intellectual Property and Competition Law; no. 25).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Scientific › peer-review
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Study on Trade Secret Protection in Europe, US and China
Lee, N. R. & Huang, W., 2017, EUIPO European Union Intellectual Property Office. 72 p.Research output: Book/Report › Commissioned report
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Interfacing Intellectual Property Rights and Open Innovation
Lee, N., Nystén-Haarala, S. & Huhtilainen, L., 2011, Lappeenranta University of Technology. (Department Of Industrial Management Research Report; no. 225)Research output: Book/Report › Commissioned report
Projects
- 8 Finished
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FAirness, Morality and Equality in international and European Intellectual Property Law (FAME-IP)
Lee, N. (Project participant), Jongsma, D. (Project participant), Bruun, N. (Project participant), Cadillo Chandler, D. (Project participant), Antikainen, M. (Project participant), Kallio, S. (Project participant), Kur, A. (Project participant), Sandeen, S. (Project participant), Simon, D. (Project participant) & Calboli, I. (Project participant)
01.07.2018 → 31.12.2022
Project: Externally funded project
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EU-CN Comparative study on protection of trade secrets
Lee, N. (Project participant), Cadillo Chandler, D. (Project participant), Jongsma, D. (Project participant), Bruun, N. (Project participant), Kur, A. (Project participant), Wushuang, H. (Working partner) & Follador, D. (Project coordinator)
01.11.2016 → 31.07.2017
Project: Externally funded project
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Additive Manufacturing and Innovation: Technical, Economic, Legal, and Policy Related Aspects of Rising Technologies (AdManI)
Ballardini, R. (Project manager, academic), Lee, N. (Project participant), Norrgård, M. (Project manager, academic), Salmi, M. (Project participant), Partanen, J. (Project manager, academic), Wechsler, A. (Working partner), Minssen, T. (Working partner), Mendis, D. (Working partner), Antikainen, M. (Project participant), Tuomi, J. (Project participant), He, K. (Project participant), Cadillo Chandler, D. (Project participant) & Jongsma, D. (Project participant)
01.01.2015 → 01.01.2017
Project: Externally funded project
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Legal Transplant for Innovation and Creativity: A Sino-Finnish Comparative Study on the Governance of Intellectual Property Rights (TranSIP)
Lee, N. (Project manager, academic), Bruun, N. (Project participant), Li, M. (Project participant), Norrgård, M. (Project participant), Li, Y. (Project participant), Cadillo Chandler, D. (Project participant), Ballardini, R. (Project participant), He, K. (Project participant), Larson, K. L. (Project participant), Antikainen, M. (Project participant), Jongsma, D. (Project participant), Liguo, Z. (Project participant), Zhao, Y. (Project participant), Tammenlehto, L. (Project participant), Wechsler, A. (Project participant) & Liu, B. (Project participant)
01.01.2013 → 31.12.2015
Project: Externally funded project
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The Inner and Outer Limits of Patent Protection (PatLim)
Norrgård, M. (Project manager, academic), Ballardini, R. (Project participant), Lee, N. (Project participant), Pitkänen, O. (Working partner), Virtanen, P. (Project participant), Bruun, N. (Working partner), Ohly, A. (Working partner), Schovsbo, J. (Working partner), Larson, K. L. (Project participant) & Lönnqvist, P. (Project participant)
01.09.2011 → 31.10.2016
Project: Externally funded project
Activities
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Europeal Policy for Intellectual Property (External organisation)
Lee, N. (Board member)
01.09.2017 → 30.09.2019Activity: Membership › Membership in academic committee, council, board
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New York University
Lee, N. (Visit abroad)
01.01.2017 → 31.05.2017Activity: Visiting an external institution › Visit to other institution
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University of Cambridge
Lee, N. (Visit abroad)
01.07.2016 → 31.08.2016Activity: Visiting an external institution › Visit to other institution
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The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (External organisation)
Lee, N. (External reviewer of other positions)
01.06.2014 → 01.10.2014Activity: Membership › Assessment of candidates for academic posts
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Commercially Valuable Data at the Crossroads of Property, Contract or the ‘Other’: A Comparative Study of Digital Data Regulations in the European Union (“EU”) and Japan”
Lee, N. (Speaker)
16.06.2025Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
Press/Media
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A remote village, a world-changing invention and the epic legal fight that followed
27.01.2022
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Press / Media
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Hankenforskare: Finland måste sluta hamstra vaccin
10.10.2021
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Press / Media
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Rokotepatenttien vapauttaminen ei ratkaisisi kaikkia ongelmia
07.06.2021 → 10.06.2021
3 items of Media coverage, 1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Press / Media