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Jay (Young-June) Yang

Jay (Young-June) Yang

Asia-Pacific 2026

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3 Articles, Press releases, highlights

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Asia-Pacific

Practice Areas

Intellectual Property, Intellectual Property Dispute, ESG, Game, Resort & Entertainment, Product Liability & Consumer Claims, and Technology, Media & Telecommunications.

Career

Jay (Young-June) Yang represents the Intellectual Property Practice at Kim & Chang with over 40 years of experience. Mr. Yang specializes in intellectual property prosecution, intellectual property litigation, and intellectual property transactions. He is also leading the ESG Practice of the firm. In addition, he has specialties in the areas of game, resort & entertainment, product liability & consumer claims, and technology, media & telecommunications, and ESG. His professional experience is listed below.

Kim & Chang (1980-Present);

Chair, INTA’s Famous & Well-Known Marks Committee (2016-2017);

Vice Chair, INTA’s Famous & Well-Known Marks Committee (2014-2015);

Chair, INTA’s Famous & Well-Known Marks Committee East Asia & Pacific Sub-Committee (2012-2013);

Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, New York (1985-1986).

Professional Memberships

Korean Bar and New York Bar;

Korea Patent Attorneys Association;

International Trademark Association (INTA).

Publications

Practitioner’s Guide to the Madrid Agreement and the Madrid Protocol: Korea Chapter (INTA, 2013-2019);

International Copyright Law and Practice: Korea Chapter (LexisNexis Matthew Bender, 2000-2019);

International Intellectual Property Litigation: Korea Chapter (Sweet & Maxwell, 2000-2011).

Personal

University of Michigan Law School (LL.M., 1985);

Seoul National University (LL.B., 1977).

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Intellectual Property - South Korea

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Jay Yang (Yang Young-June) heads Kim & Chang's intellectual property legal team and maintains a highly respected position in the market, with a career spanning over three decades. His expertise covers copyright, trade mark and patent mandates.

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