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Angela KIM Foreign Attorney (Admitted in Ontario, Canada and New York)

T.+82-2-2122-3599 F.+82-2-2122-3800
Angela KIM Foreign Attorney
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Angela KIM Foreign Attorney

Angela KIMForeign Attorney (Admitted in Ontario, Canada and New York)

T.+82-2-2122-3599F.+82-2-2122-3800E.angela.kim@kimchang.com

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Angela Kim is a foreign senior attorney in the firm's Intellectual Property Group practice group. Her practice covers dispute resolution involving unfair competition, trademarks, copyrights and designs, and the negotiation, drafting and review of IP related transactions. She also helps clients devise and carry out trademark enforcement and anti-counterfeiting strategies. Ms. Kim first started working in the trademark and copyright fields as an articling student at an IP boutique in Toronto, before moving to New York City where she obtained extensive experience in global brand protection at a firm recognized worldwide for its international trademark practice. Prior to her move to Seoul, she worked in Shanghai for several years focusing exclusively on anti-counterfeiting, trademark policing and enforcement of well-known brands.

Ms. Kim has has worked with clients in a broad range of industries including entertainment, technology, pharmaceuticals, consumer and luxury goods. Ms. Kim's experience includes brand development and protection strategy, drafting and negotiating IP agreements, management of multi country enforcement actions and anti-counterfeiting programs, complex filing programs, IP due diligence and worldwide trademark clearance for brand expansions. 

Ms. Kim was admitted to the New York bar in 1995 and called to the bar in Ontario, Canada in 1996.

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Experience

Kim & Chang (2014-Present)

Chang Tsi & Partners, Shanghai, China (2010-2014)

Fross Zelnick Lehrman & Zissu, New York, USA (1999-2007)

Bereskin & Parr, Toronto, Canada (1994-1999)

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Awards

  • Leading Lawyer, Who's Who Legal: IP - Trademarks (Who's Who Legal, 2024)
  • Leading Lawyer, Who's Who Legal: Intellectual Property, Trademarks (Who's Who Legal, 2021-2024)
  • Leading Trademark Practitioner (World Trademark Review (WTR) 1000, 2021-2025)

Publications/Activities

    [Publication]
    Supreme Court issues landmark decision on criteria for dilution under Trademark Act (Co-author, World Trademark Review Daily, 2024)
    Letter of consent system among notable amendments to Trademark Act coming into effect next spring (Co-author, World Trademark Review Daily, 2023)
    Korea poised to allow letters of consent for trademark co-existence - World Trademark Review (Co-author, World Trademark Review Daily, 2023)
    Korea Customs Service publishes 2021 annual report on IP rights Seizures (Co-author, World Trademark Review Daily, 2023)
    KIPO study reveals high number of malicious trademark filings in Korea (Co-author, World Trademark Review Daily, 2023)
    KIPO adopts new Virtual Goods Examination Guidelines (Co-author, World Trademark Review Daily, 2022)
    Design rights infringers may face criminal charges even if no complaint is filed (Co-author, World Trademark Review Daily, 2022)
    New amendments to the Korean Trademark Act: what you need to know (Co-author, World Trademark Review Daily, 2022)
    KIPO exercises new unfair competition enforcement powers (Co-author, International Law Office, 2018)
    Copycat packaging enjoined for unfair competition on dilution grounds (Co-author, World Trademark Review Daily, 2017)
    Criminal penalties to be introduced for selling 'dead copy' products (Co-author, World Trademark Review Daily, 2017)
    Minimalist designs can now be protected through design registration (Co-author, World Trademark Review Daily, 2017)
    Minimalist designs can be protected through design registration (Co-author, International Law Office, 2017)
    Registered design rights doubly protected by Unfair Competition Prevention and Trade Secrets Protection Act (Co-author, ILO Intellectual Property Newsletter, 2016)
    Supreme Court rejects KIPO's examination practice for 3D marks (Co-author, World Trademark Review Daily, 2015)
    Landmark decision puts the freeze on copying ice cream shop's trade dress (Co-author, ILO Intellectual Property Newsletter, 2015)
    Landmark decision puts the freeze on copying ice cream shop's trade dress (Co-author, World Trademark Review Daily, 2015)

    [Activities]
    International Trademark Association (Global Advisory Council, APAC, 2020-2021, Anti-Counterfeiting and Enforcement Subcommittee member, 2012-Present; Online Anti-Counterfeiting Task Force, 2013-2014; Anti-Counterfeiting and Enforcement/East Asia and Pacific Subcommittee, 2005-2007; Legislation and Regulation/East Asia and Pacific Subcommittee, 2002-2005)
    Panelist - “Truth or Consequences: The Truth about Ethics and Client Relationships”, International Trademark Association’s Leadership Meeting, November 2011
    Moderator - “Madrid Protocol for the Trademark Administrator”, International Trademark Association’s Annual Meeting, May 2004
    Intellectual Property Institute of Canada (affiliate member, 1996-2007)
    Korean-Canadian Lawyers Association (founding director, 1996-1999)
    Visiting lecturer on copyright law for graphic designers at the Sheridan College School of Animation and Design, Oakville, Canada (1997, 1998, 1999)

Education

University of Ottawa (LL.B, 1993)

University of Toronto (B.Sc., 1988)

Qualifications

Admitted to bar, Ontario, 1996; New York, 1995

Languages

English and Korean

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Angela KIM
Foreign Attorney (Admitted in Ontario, Canada and New York)


T. +82-2-2122-3599      
F. +82-2-2122-3800      
  




Angela Kim is a foreign senior attorney in the firm's Intellectual Property Group practice group. Her practice covers dispute resolution involving unfair competition, trademarks, copyrights and designs, and the negotiation, drafting and review of IP related transactions. She also helps clients devise and carry out trademark enforcement and anti-counterfeiting strategies. Ms. Kim first started working in the trademark and copyright fields as an articling student at an IP boutique in Toronto, before moving to New York City where she obtained extensive experience in global brand protection at a firm recognized worldwide for its international trademark practice. Prior to her move to Seoul, she worked in Shanghai for several years focusing exclusively on anti-counterfeiting, trademark policing and enforcement of well-known brands.

Ms. Kim has has worked with clients in a broad range of industries including entertainment, technology, pharmaceuticals, consumer and luxury goods. Ms. Kim's experience includes brand development and protection strategy, drafting and negotiating IP agreements, management of multi country enforcement actions and anti-counterfeiting programs, complex filing programs, IP due diligence and worldwide trademark clearance for brand expansions. 

Ms. Kim was admitted to the New York bar in 1995 and called to the bar in Ontario, Canada in 1996.






    Kim & Chang (2014-Present)

    Chang Tsi & Partners, Shanghai, China (2010-2014)

    Fross Zelnick Lehrman & Zissu, New York, USA (1999-2007)

    Bereskin & Parr, Toronto, Canada (1994-1999)






Awards

  •   Leading Lawyer, Who's Who Legal: IP - Trademarks (Who's Who Legal, 2024)
  •   Leading Lawyer, Who's Who Legal: Intellectual Property, Trademarks (Who's Who Legal, 2021-2024)
  •   Leading Trademark Practitioner (World Trademark Review (WTR) 1000, 2021-2025)

Publications/Activities

[Publication]
Supreme Court issues landmark decision on criteria for dilution under Trademark Act (Co-author, World Trademark Review Daily, 2024)
Letter of consent system among notable amendments to Trademark Act coming into effect next spring (Co-author, World Trademark Review Daily, 2023)
Korea poised to allow letters of consent for trademark co-existence - World Trademark Review (Co-author, World Trademark Review Daily, 2023)
Korea Customs Service publishes 2021 annual report on IP rights Seizures (Co-author, World Trademark Review Daily, 2023)
KIPO study reveals high number of malicious trademark filings in Korea (Co-author, World Trademark Review Daily, 2023)
KIPO adopts new Virtual Goods Examination Guidelines (Co-author, World Trademark Review Daily, 2022)
Design rights infringers may face criminal charges even if no complaint is filed (Co-author, World Trademark Review Daily, 2022)
New amendments to the Korean Trademark Act: what you need to know (Co-author, World Trademark Review Daily, 2022)
KIPO exercises new unfair competition enforcement powers (Co-author, International Law Office, 2018)
Copycat packaging enjoined for unfair competition on dilution grounds (Co-author, World Trademark Review Daily, 2017)
Criminal penalties to be introduced for selling 'dead copy' products (Co-author, World Trademark Review Daily, 2017)
Minimalist designs can now be protected through design registration (Co-author, World Trademark Review Daily, 2017)
Minimalist designs can be protected through design registration (Co-author, International Law Office, 2017)
Registered design rights doubly protected by Unfair Competition Prevention and Trade Secrets Protection Act (Co-author, ILO Intellectual Property Newsletter, 2016)
Supreme Court rejects KIPO's examination practice for 3D marks (Co-author, World Trademark Review Daily, 2015)
Landmark decision puts the freeze on copying ice cream shop's trade dress (Co-author, ILO Intellectual Property Newsletter, 2015)
Landmark decision puts the freeze on copying ice cream shop's trade dress (Co-author, World Trademark Review Daily, 2015)

[Activities]
International Trademark Association (Global Advisory Council, APAC, 2020-2021, Anti-Counterfeiting and Enforcement Subcommittee member, 2012-Present; Online Anti-Counterfeiting Task Force, 2013-2014; Anti-Counterfeiting and Enforcement/East Asia and Pacific Subcommittee, 2005-2007; Legislation and Regulation/East Asia and Pacific Subcommittee, 2002-2005)
Panelist - “Truth or Consequences: The Truth about Ethics and Client Relationships”, International Trademark Association’s Leadership Meeting, November 2011
Moderator - “Madrid Protocol for the Trademark Administrator”, International Trademark Association’s Annual Meeting, May 2004
Intellectual Property Institute of Canada (affiliate member, 1996-2007)
Korean-Canadian Lawyers Association (founding director, 1996-1999)
Visiting lecturer on copyright law for graphic designers at the Sheridan College School of Animation and Design, Oakville, Canada (1997, 1998, 1999)






Education

    University of Ottawa (LL.B, 1993)

    University of Toronto (B.Sc., 1988)


Qualifications

    Admitted to bar, Ontario, 1996; New York, 1995


Languages
  •    English and Korean





Trademark ,  Intellectual Property Dispute ,  Copyright ,  Design ,  Intellectual Property ,  Game, Resort & Entertainment ,  US ,  Border Measures ,  Unfair Competition