Prof. Sang Jo JONG – Seoul National University School of Law; Co-Chairperson, Presidential Council on Intellectual Property, South Korea
Details of Education
Ph.D. (London School of Economics, June 1991)
LL.M. (London School of Economics, 1987)
LL.B. (Seoul National University, 1982)
Positions Held
Currently, Professor of Law, Seoul National University School of Law (Mar. 1994 – )
Currently, Co-Chairperson, Presidential Council on Intellectual Property (Mar. 2020 – )
Currently, Member of the Korean Academy of Science and Technology (Dec. 2015 – )
Currently, Member of the Editorial Board of GRUR International (Dec. 2020 – )
President of Korea Game Law & Policy Society (September 2013 – 2019)
Visiting Professor teaching Korean Law, Harvard Law School (January 1- 31, 2015)
Garvey Schubert Barer Professor of Law, University of Washington School of Law (September to December 2014)
Dean, Seoul National University School of Law (June 2012 – May 2014 )
Director of the Center for Law & Technology, Seoul National University (2003 – 2012 )
Member of the Presidential Council on Intellectual Property (July 2011 – 2015)
Panel Member, WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center, Switzerland (May 2000 – 2009)
Visiting Professor teaching Korean Law and Comparative Intellectual Property, Georgetown Law Center (Jan. and Feb. 2007)
Visiting Professor teaching Korean Intellectual Property, Duke Law School (Jan. 2003 – Feb. 2003)
Panel Member, Computer Program Conciliation and Mediation Committee (Nov. 1994 – June 2000)
Visiting Scholar, Stanford Law School (July 2000 – July 2001)
Senior Research Fellow, Korea Legislation Research Institute (June 1992 – Feb. 1994)
Visiting Scholar, Max-Planck-Institut, Munich, Germany (Feb. – Aug. 1991)
Publications
The Effect of FRAND Commitments on Patent Remedies, A book chapter in “Patent Remedies and Complex Products: Toward a Global Consensus” edited by Brad Biddle, Jorge L. Contreras, Brian J. Love, and Norman Siebrasse (Cambridge University Press, 2018).
Copyright, Intellectual Property Law in Korea (2nd Edition, Edited by Byung-Il Kim and Christopher Heath, Wolters Kluwer, 2015), pp.175-200.
Systematic Government Access to Private-Sector Data in the Republic of Korea, International Data Privacy Law (Oxford University Press), Vol.4, Issue 1 (2014), pp. 21-29
Fair Use: A Tale of Two Cities, Intellectual Property in Common Law and Civil Law (Edward Elgar, Northampton, 2013), pp. 176-194
Principles and Structure of Patent Litigation, Litigation in Korea (Edward Elgar Pub., Ltd., 2010), pp.219-236.
Criminalization of Netizens for the Access to On-line Music, Journal of Korean Law, Vol. 4, No. 1 (2004) pp51-72
Property versus Misappropriation: Legal Protection for Databases in Korea, 8 Washington University Journal of Law & Policy 75 (2002) pp75-98
Contributory Infringement of Patents in Korea, 2 Washington University Journal of Law & Policy 287 (2000) pp287-307
Recent Developments in Copyright Law of Korea, Korean Journal of Comparative Law, Vol. 24 (Dec. 1996)
The Legal Protection of Computer Programs with particular reference to U.K., U.S., Japan & Korea (Ph.D. Thesis, June 1991)
Prof. Sang Jo Jong, Professor of Law at Seoul National University School of Law and the civilian chairperson of the Presidential Council of Intellectual Property, has graduated from Seoul National University (“SNU”) and done his Ph.D. studies at the London School of Economics. Doctoral degree was awarded in 1991 for his thesis titled “The Legal Protection of Computer Programs with particular reference to U.K., U.S., Japan & Korea.” His researches and teachings mostly center around copyright, trademark, patent, unfair competition, antitrust, and internet laws. He taught Korean Law at Harvard Law School in 2015 and at University of Washington School of Law in 2014 and also taught comparative intellectual property laws at Georgetown University Law Center in 2007 and at Duke Law School in 2003. He has served as the Dean of SNU School of Law, the President of Korea Game Law & Policy Society, the Director of the SNU Center for Law & Technology, and a Panel Member of the WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center. His publication includes various topics ranging from “The Legal Protection of Computer Programs with particular reference to U.K., U.S., Japan & Korea (Ph.D. Thesis)” to “Contributory Infringement of Patents in Korea, 2 Washington University Journal of Law & Policy 287 (2000),” “Property versus Misappropriation: Legal Protection for Databases in Korea, 8 Washington University Journal of Law & Policy 75 (2002),” “Criminalization of Netizens for the Access to On-line Music, Journal of Korean Law, Vol. 4, No. 1 (2004),” “Fair Use: A Tale of Two Cities, Intellectual Property in Common Law and Civil Law (Edward Elgar, Northampton, 2013),” and “Systematic Government Access to Private-Sector Data in the Republic of Korea, International Data Privacy Law (Oxford University Press), Vol.4, Issue 1 (2014), pp. 21-29.”