Nam Kim is a partner in the Intellectual Property Practice Group in the firm's San Diego (Del Mar) office and spends a considerable amount of time in the Seoul office.
Areas of Practice
Nam's practice focuses on patent litigation, patent preparation and prosecution, ex parte reexamination, AIA post-grant review proceedings and IP counseling. He is involved in patent litigation matters to defend clients' IP rights against infringers and defend clients against alleged infringements. He is also experienced in preparing and prosecuting patent applications and provides strategic IP counseling. Nam also represents clients in reexamination and inter partes review proceedings. He has experience and knowledge in a variety of technologies, including various wireless technologies (WCDMA, HSPA, LTE, CDMA2000, wireless modems, cellular Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS)), vehicle navigation systems, digital and analog electronics, optics, LCD and other display technologies, magnetic resonance imaging technology, digital image processing, nanotechnology, MEMS devices, photovoltaic cells, hard disk drive technology, semiconductor devices and processing, medical devices, computer software, motors and motor drives for electric vehicles and CNC machining centers.
Nam also counsels clients on trademark applications, oppositions and infringement matters.
Honors
Recommended by Legal 500 Asia Pacific: Intellectual Property - Foreign Firms, 2019-2020
San Diego Rising Star, Super Lawyers, 2015-2018
Number 11 ranked IPR attorney in the country representing Petitioners, Patexia IPR Intelligence Report, 2019
Insights
Articles
Intellectual Property Law Blog Posts
• Software and Business Method Inventions After Alice, September 26, 2016
• Federal Circuit Reaffirms Its Longstanding Patent Exhaustion Precedents in Lexmark. v. Impression Products (Fed. Cir. Feb. 12, 2016) (en banc), March 18, 2016
• Calcar and Thorner: Attempting to Reconcile the Federal Circuit's Claim Construction Jurisprudence, July 23, 2012
Speaking Engagements
• U.S. Patent Law: Patent Prosecution and Litigation, delivered at the Electrical Engineering department of University of California at San Diego to visiting Korean scholars, January 5, 2012
• Protecting IP and Licensing Technology In & Out, William J. von Liebig Center Entrepreneurial Seminar Series, May 9, 2009
Events
•Trends in Intellectual Property - Keep Up or Get Left Behind
01.18.2018
•2013 U.S.-Korea Law Day
07.27.2013
