Overview
Profile
Experience
Kim & Chang (2011-Present)
Cho & Partners (2008-2011)
Sidley Austin LLP (2005-2007)
Representative ActivitiesView All
Awards
- The World's Leading Trademark Professionals (World Trademark Review (WTR) 1000, 2025)
- Client Choice Awards - Trademarks (Lexology, 2025)
- Thought Leader, Lexology: Intellectual Property - Trademarks (Lexology, 2024)
- Leading Lawyer, Who's Who Legal: Korea, Intellectual Property (Who's Who Legal, 2024)
- Leading Trademark Practitioner (World Trademark Review (WTR) 1000, 2018-2019, 2024)
- Leading Lawyer, Who's Who Legal: Intellectual Property - Trademarks (Who's Who Legal, 2022-2023)
Publications/Activities
- UCPA amendment protecting good-faith prior users enters into force (Co-author, World Trademark Review Daily, 2023)
- Can a well-known mark owner raise a consumer confusion claim against a good-faith prior user? (Co-author, World Trademark Review Daily, 2023)
- Korean Customs 2020 statistics show increased seizures of counterfeit goods (Co-author, World Trademark Review Daily, 2022)
- Partial design applications becoming more popular in South Korea (Co-author, World Trademark Review Daily, 2021)
- Patent Court holds that ASICS' use of Novak name is not trademark use (Co-author, World Trademark Review Daily, 2021)
- Supreme Court confirms that use of later-registered mark can infringe earlier-registered mark in landmark decision (Co-author, World Trademark Review Daily, 2021)
- Expedited examination of trademark filings now easier to request (Co-author, World Trademark Review Daily, 2020)
- KIPO amends Trademark Examination Guidelines - Key changes highlighted (Co-author, World Trademark Review Daily, 2019)
- Korea Customs Service announces amendments to IP rights protection guidelines (Co-author, ILO Intellectual Property Newsletter, 2018)
- Supreme Court rules that AMERICAN UNIVERSITY trademark is inherently distinctive (Co-author, ILO Intellectual Property Newsletter, 2018)
- Franchise Founders Criminally Indicated for Failure to Transfer Trademarks to Their Franchises (Co-author, World Trademark Review Daily, 2018)
- Working with Customs: Vital and Effective Way to Combat Counterfeiters (Co-author, ILO Intellectual Property Newsletter, 2017)
- Amendments to Design Protection Act (Co-author, ILO Intellectual Property Newsletter, 2017)
- Supreme Court Rejects KIPO's Examination Practice for 3D Marks (Co-author, World Trademark Review Daily, 2015)
- Supreme Court Decision Provides New Tool against Trademark Infringers (Co-author, World Trademark Review Daily, 2014)
Education
Loyola Law School, Los Angeles (J.D., 2004)
University of California, Irvine (B.A., Political Science, 2001)
Qualifications
Admitted to bar, California, 2005
U.S. District Court, Central District of California, 2005
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, 2005
Languages
English and Korean
Insights
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Recognitions
Kim & Chang Ranked Among Top Trademark Firms in WTR 1000 2025
2025.02.03 -
Recognitions
17 Kim & Chang Professionals Recognized as Global Elite Thought Leaders in the Lexology Index: Client Choice 2025
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Recognitions
14 Individual Recognitions – WWL: IP 2024
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Recognitions
151 Professionals Selected as “National Leaders” – WWL: Korea 2024
2024.07.17 -
Recognitions
Kim & Chang Ranked Among Top Trademark Firms in WTR 1000 2024
2024.02.07 -
Articles
World Trademark Review Daily - UCPA amendment protecting good-faith prior users enters into force
2023.10.25