Yolanda King

Professor

University of Illinois Chicago School of Law

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Yolanda M. King is the Director of the Center for Intellectual Property, Information and Privacy Law and an Associate Professor of Law at University of Illinois Chicago School of Law. She teaches Property and intellectual property law courses. Her scholarly interests include the copyrightability of tattoos, the enforcement of tattoo copyrights, right of publicity protection for celebrities’ tattoos and choreography, and music licensing.
Dean King is Of Counsel at Chicago-based intellectual property law firm Advitam IP, where she advises clients on trademark protection and prosecutes federal trademark applications before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
She graduated from Harvard Law School and Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis.