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Elizabeth Eunjoo Kim, Ph.D., is a partner in the law firm of McDermott Will & Emery LLP based in the Firm’s Boston office. As a member of the Intellectual Property, Media & Technology Department, she specializes in patent law.
Elizabeth is experienced in procuring patents (both U.S. and international) in a wide range of complex technical fields, for clients that include major academic institutions, publicly traded companies and venture start-ups. She helps clients strategically develop and exploit their patent portfolios, using her scientific expertise to maximize their patent rights. She also provides opinions relating to patentability, infringement, validity and freedom-to-operate, as well as advice regarding licensing and due diligence matters. She has provided litigation support for patent infringement lawsuits involving technologies such as PDP (plasma display panel), communication switches and spinal implants.
Elizabeth provides patent services based on an in-depth understanding of the underlying technologies, some examples of which include:
nanotechnology (nanoparticle scattering probes, carbon nanotubes, nanophotonics, NEMS (nanoelectromechanical systems), quantum-well structures);
telecommunications networks (optical channel routers, CDMA (code division multiple access) networks, OTDM (optical-time-division-multiplexed) networks);
digital image processing and computer graphics (volume rendering including texture-based techniques and segmentation, 2D/3D image registration, graphical user interfaces);
optics and photonics (photonic band gap structures, fiber optics, optoelectronics, reflectometry);
semiconductors and electronics (plasma etching, atomic layer deposition, MEMS (microelectromechanical systems), integrated circuits, signal processing);
spectroscopy (NQR (nuclear quadrupole resonance), NMR (nuclear magnetic resonance), Raman); and
computer architecture (memory caches, pipelining, translation look-aside buffers).
Before entering law school, Elizabeth worked as a physicist in research laboratories in the U.S., France and Canada. She published a number of articles relating to the study of nuclear structure using quantum field theory. She attended Seoul National University in Korea, before coming to the U.S. to receive a B.S. and a Ph.D. in physics. While in law school, she was an editor for the Stanford Journal of International Law. She was appointed a member of the Board of Editors for the Boston Bar Journal of the Boston Bar Association (BBA), starting fall 2007.
Elizabeth is a member of the New York bar and the Massachusetts bar. She is registered to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
Education:
Stanford Law School, J.D., 1995
Stanford University, Ph.D., 1987
University of California-Berkeley, B.A., 1982 | 