Michael Kim serves as a partner in the firm’s Intellectual Property Litigation Group. His practice focuses primarily on patent and trade secret litigation and counseling before state and U.S. district courts in addition to U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) Section 337 proceedings. He also serves on the Probono committee and is the Probono chair in Alston & Bird’s Menlo Park office.

Michael has extensive litigation and trial experience representing both plaintiffs and defendants in patent and trade secret cases. He specializes in preparing, strategizing, and managing cases for both jury trials and 337 ITC hearings. He has litigated cases and participated in all phases of trial involving complex technology such as 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).

Michael also has substantial patent prosecution and portfolio management experience. He was 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, micro-electro-mechanical-system (MEMS) devices and processes, semiconductor fabrication processes and devices, biological microarray image analysis, and photolithography tools. He has substantial experience providing client counseling regarding domestic and foreign patent portfolios and providing patentability, validity and non-infringement opinions.

Michael received his B.S.E.E. in 1992 from Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN. While at Purdue, he completed and received his Cooperative Education Certificate at IBM Manassas, VA, as a student engineer. From 1992-1996, he was a patent examiner at the Patent and Trademark Office, where he examined patent applications in the computer networking arts. He received his J.D. in 1999 from American University, Washington College of Law. During law school, he was a judicial extern for Judge Ricardo M. Urbina at the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia and represented low-income clients in the Landlord Tenant Court in the District of Columbia while participating in the civil trial clinical program.

Michael is a member of the California Bar and is admitted to practice before the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, and the United States Patent and Trademark Office. He is a member of the American Intellectual Property Law Association, the American Bar Association, and the Silicon Valley Intellectual Property Law Association. Michael’s sample patents include: U.S. Patent No. 6,910,148, U.S. Patent No. 6,813,274 and U.S. Patent No. 6,563,106.