Dr. Steven Kim is a partner whose practice focuses on intellectual property matters, including IP prosecution, freedom-to-operate analyses, client counseling, licensing agreements, and litigation. Dr. Kim also has extensive experience enforcing patents, trademarks, and copyrights against infringing parties. In addition, he has assisted clients with intellectual property matters in numerous countries around the world.

Dr. Kim has represented clients in patent and design patent matters involving a wide range of technologies, including pharmaceuticals, materials chemistry, medical devices, consumer electronics, computer software, toys, and footwear. His practice also includes handling matters involving copyrights, unfair competition, non-disclosure agreements, and a variety of other intellectual property-related issues.

In 2001, Dr. Kim earned his doctorate in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), where he conducted research as a Product Research Corporation Fellow and was a two-time recipient of the Distinguished Teaching Award. He later served as a Lecturer and Academic Coordinator in UCLA’s Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and received the Hanson-Dow Teaching Award. From 2008 to 2012, Dr. Kim also served as a National Science Foundation Co-Principal Investigator, conducting research on the secreted protein cues of intertidal organisms on wave-swept shores. He has also published articles on the regulation and processing of mRNA transcription in eukaryotic systems and the transcription termination of RNAP II.

Prior to earning his doctorate, Dr. Kim assisted in the development of liposomal drug delivery while working at Nexstar Pharmaceuticals (now Gilead Sciences). In 2005, he graduated from Occidental College, earning a Bachelor of Arts in Biochemistry with minors in Kinesiology and Religious Studies. His undergraduate research focused on the effects of antipsychotic medication on cell membranes and was presented at the 2005 American Chemical Society Meeting in San Diego, California.

While attending Loyola Law School and teaching full-time at UCLA, Dr. Kim also interned with UCLA’s Office of Intellectual Property, where he worked in technology transfer and patent counseling. He later served as a law clerk in the Intellectual Property Division of the Los Angeles City Attorney’s Office. He also appeared before the court as a certified law clerk under the direction of the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office. In addition, Dr. Kim served as Vice President of Loyola Law School’s Evening Student Body Association. He earned his Juris Doctor in 2012 and received the Dean’s Service Award.

Publications

Zimmer, R.K., Ferrier, G.A., Kim, S.J., Ogorzalek Loo, R.R., Zimmer, C.A., & Loo, J.A. Keystone Predation and Molecules of Keystone Significance. Ecology. 2017;98(6):1710–1721.

Zimmer, R.K., Ferrier, G.A., Kim, S.J., Kaddis, C.S., Zimmer, C.A., & Loo, J.A. A Multifunctional Chemical Cue Drives Opposing Demographic Processes and Structures Ecological Communities. Ecology. 2016;97(9):2232–2239.

Ferrier, G.A., Kim, S.J., Kaddis, C.S., Loo, J.A., Zimmer, C.A., & Zimmer, R.K. MULTIFUNCin: A Multifunctional Protein Cue Induces Habitat Selection by, and Predation on, Barnacles. Integrative and Comparative Biology. 2016;56(5):901–913.

Kim, S.J., & Martinson, H.G. Poly(A)-Dependent Transcription Termination: Continued Communication of the Poly(A) Signal with the Polymerase Is Required Long After Extrusion In Vivo. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 2003;278(43):41691–41701.

Orozco, I.J., Kim, S.J., & Martinson, H.G. The Poly(A) Signal, Without the Assistance of Any Downstream Element, Directs RNA Polymerase II to Pause In Vivo and Then to Release Stochastically from the Template. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 2002;277(45):42899–42911. (Recommended by Faculty of 1000.)

Tran, D.P., Kim, S.J., Park, N.J., Jew, T.M., & Martinson, H.G. Mechanism of Poly(A) Signal Transduction to RNA Polymerase II In Vitro. Molecular and Cellular Biology. 2001;21(21):7495–7508.

Chao, L.C., Jamil, A., Kim, S.J., Huang, L., & Martinson, H.G. Assembly of the Cleavage and Polyadenylation Apparatus Requires About 10 Seconds In Vivo and Is Faster for Strong Than for Weak Poly(A) Sites. Molecular and Cellular Biology. 1999;19(8):5588–5600.