Kim & Chang

Intellectual Property; Intellectual Property Dispute; Trademark; Patent & Utility Model; Game, Resort & Entertainment; Product Liability & Consumer Claims; Industrial Security and Export Control; Japan (IP); France (IP); China (IP); Border Measures; International IP Disputes

Jay (Young-June) Yang is an attorney at Kim & Chang with over 40 years of experience in all areas of intellectual property practice, including patent, trademark, design, copyright, unfair competition, trade secret and entertainment.

Mr. Yang is the leader of the firm’s Intellectual Property Practice. He has extensive experience in patent, trademark, trade secret and other intellectual property litigation, including Korea's Patent Court cases and Korea Trade Commission cases. He has also handled several landmark cases involving copyright infringement or unfair competition. He has represented many multinational clients in various industries including the electronics, IT, pharmaceutical, chemical, health care, food, consumer products and luxury industries. He also has extensive experience in all areas of entertainment law, including entertainment licensing, entertainment contract negotiation and preparation. He speaks English and Japanese fluently, and his clientele include US, European and Japanese companies.

He also has significant experience in intellectual property transactions such as technology licensing and other intellectual property licensing, franchising, and intellectual property due diligence.

He is a member of the Seoul Bar Association, the Korean Bar Association, and the American Bar Association. He is also a member of the Korean Patent Attorneys Association.

He has been consistently recognized in various peer-based directories and rankings, including Chambers Global, Asia Pacific Legal 500, Who’s Who Legal, Managing Intellectual Property, and World Trademark Review 1000, as a leading IP attorney. Mr. Yang is a member of the International Trademark Association (INTA). He served as a chair of the East Asia & Pacific sub-committee in 2012-2013 and also served as the chair of the INTA’s Famous & Well-Known Marks Committee (FWKMC) in 2016-2017.

Mr. Yang is admitted to practice in Korea and New York.

Korean, English and Japanese

Admitted to bar, Korea, 1977; New York, 1986

University of Michigan Law School (LL.M., 1985) Judicial Research and Training Institute of the Supreme Court of Korea (1977) College of Law, Seoul National University (LL.B., 1977)