Olivia Kim is the leader of the Los Angeles IP Group and an IP trial lawyer, concentrating her practice on complex patent litigation, including contentious competitor cases. Olivia has a national trial practice, including trials in California, Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, New York and Texas, and has significant experience in examining and cross-examining critical lay and expert witnesses. She also has cutting-edge experience in the area of patent damages, including developing new methodologies in recent jury trials and for pre-trial and summary judgment phases.
Olivia’s trial experience involves various technologies from pharmaceuticals to computer hardware and software, including biotechnology, clinical testing, medical devices, biometric sensors, computer processor architecture, graphical user interfaces, Internet payment systems, mobile phone systems, network security and plasma display panels. She has led teams in all stages of litigation, including claim construction briefing and hearings, inventor and expert depositions and expert reports, the drafting and negotiation of settlement agreements, and substantive and discovery motion practice.
Prior to starting her legal career, Olivia performed research in immunology and physiology laboratories at UCLA and co-authored papers on immune responses in diabetic mice and methods for membrane protein purification.