S.H. Michael Kim is an IP litigation partner in the firm’s Silicon Valley office. Mr. Kim’s practice focuses primarily on patent and trade secret litigation cases in state court, district court, and the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC). He has extensive trial experience preparing, managing, and strategizing cases for both jury trials and ITC Section 337 hearings with particular emphasis in managing experts. He has participated in all phases of trial involving complex technology, such as digital televisions and controller chips, digital content management, sintered rare earth magnets, DC-DC controller chips, touch sensors for hand-held devices, optical mouse sensor chips, light-emitting diodes (LEDs), Ethernet network interface controllers, electrical switches, micro-controllers used in CD/DVD ROM players and dynamic random access memories (DRAMs).

Mr. Kim also provides strategic patent counseling and patent portfolio management including handling inter partes review and reexamination proceedings. Mr. Kim is a former patent examiner in the computer networking arts and prepared and prosecuted hundreds of patents dealing with pixel display technologies, networking switches and routers, microprocessors, memory devices and cards, computer software and hardware applications, microelectromechanicalsystem (MEMS) devices and processes, semiconductor fabrication processes and devices, biological microarray image analysis and photolithography tools. He also has substantial experience providing client counseling regarding domestic and foreign patent portfolios and providing patentability, validity and noninfringement opinions.