Jootag Yoon

Practice Areas

Mr. Jootag Yoon is a partner at Shin & Kim whose main practice areas are patents, utility models, designs, trademarks, unfair competition, trade secrets, industrial technology protection, technology, media, and telecommunications (TMT), digital technology, data law, privacy protection, software disputes, copyrights and entertainment, product liability, and bio and healthcare. Since joining Shin & Kim, Mr. Yoon has represented clients and won in multiple cases in relation to patent infringement, trade secret infringement (in civil and criminal disputes), non-compete agreements, copyright infringement, trademark and design infringement, and product liability, in several of which he successfully obtained a remand decision from the Supreme Court. Also, he has advised his clients on various issues in his major practice areas, including Freedom-to-Operate (FTO) analysis.

Career

Partner, Shin & Kim; Member, Korea Copyright Commission (2024-Present); Director, Korea Institute of Design Promotion (2023-Present); Vice-President, Korean Intellectual Property Lawyers Association (KIPLA) (2023-Present); Member, Editorial Board of “The Justice”, Korean Society of Law (2022-Present); High Court Judge, Seoul High Court (Intellectual Property Rights Specialist Tribunal) (2019-2021); Judge, Seoul Central District Court (2018-2019); Judge, Patent Court (2014-2018); Judge, Anyang Branch of Suwon District Court (2011-2014); Judge, Changwon District Court (2007-2011); Judge, Seoul Central District Court (2004-2006).

Professional Memberships

Korean Bar and Patent Bar.

Publications

“Practice on Intellectual Property Litigation”, Park Young-sa (Co-authored); “Commentary to the Design Protection Act”, Park Young-sa (Co-authored); “Commentary on Trademark Law”, Park Young-sa (Co-authored); “Online Commentary on Patent Law”, LAWnB (Co-authored); “Prohibition of Request for Duplicate Trial”, Special Law Research, Judicial Development Foundation (2019); “Case Study on Incomplete Invention”, Patent Litigation Research Vol.7, Patent Court (2017); “A Case of Recognizing the Progress of Pharmaceutical Substance Invention”, LAW & TECHNOLOGY Vol. 13, No. 3, Seoul National University Technology Department Law Center (2017).

Education