Tarkan, Roberta L

Dr. William Kim is a counsel in the firm's Intellectual Property Department. He joined the firm in 2002. Dr. Kim focuses his practice on life sciences patent counseling, litigation and prosecution.

Practice

Dr. Kim's patent practice includes US and foreign patent prosecution, freedom-to-operate analysis, patentability assessment, diligence and competitive intelligence, reissue, reexamination, patent interference and litigation.

Dr. Kim has worked on a wide range of technologies, including therapeutic antibodies, small molecule drugs, sequencing technologies, oncolytic viruses, genetic and cellular diagnostics, recombinant vaccines, stem cell technologies, siRNA, engineered microorganisms for clean-energy applications and three-dimensional tissue systems.

Recent Highlights

• Representing plaintiff in pending patent infringement over a human therapeutic antibody
• Pending patent interference over a human interferon
• Pending patent interference over siRNA molecules targeting a gene associated with cancer

Professional Activities

Dr. Kim was a Norman and Rosita Winston postdoctoral fellow and a Cancer Research Institute postdoctoral fellow in the Laboratory of Molecular Genetics and Immunology at The Rockefeller University. He received a PhD, with distinction, in the Cellular, Molecular and Biophysical Studies program from Columbia University. His thesis research focused on the molecular and genetic mechanisms of T-cell development. Dr. Kim is a member of the American Intellectual Property Law Association.

Honors and Awards

• Recognized as a "Rising Star" in the 2011 edition of Northern California Super Lawyers