Lee Kim

Intellectual Property and Technology Law

Lee's transactional experience includes protecting and counseling clients in all areas of intellectual property, including copyrights, trademarks, trade secrets, and patents. Her patent experience includes preparation and prosecution of domestic and foreign patent applications in the biotech, chemical, pharmaceutical, neuroscience, mechanical, and software fields. 

Lee has worked with patent and trademark attorneys in other countries and regions such as Canada, Europe, United Kingdom, China, Japan, Brazil, and Mexico to help clients secure trademark and patent rights in those countries. 

Background

Education

Lee earned her undergraduate degree in Chemistry from Duquesne University, and was the recipient of the Outstanding Service Award for the Department of Biological Sciences; the 1992 R.K. Mellon Research Fellowship in Neurobiology - Department of Biological Sciences, and also of the 1994 R.K. Mellon Research Fellowship in Organic Chemistry - Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry. Lee has had several years of academic research experience in the areas of neurobiology, synthetic organic chemistry, and spectroscopy.  Lee completed graduate coursework in organic chemistry at the University of California at Santa Cruz, and, while there, she was the recipient of the GAANN Graduate Doctoral Research Fellowship for organic chemistry research.

Lee earned her law degree from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, and was a copyright law research assistant for Professor Michael J. Madison.  While at Pitt Law, Lee assisted the Office of Technology Management at the University of Pittsburgh with prior art searches and patentability assessments.  She also clerked for The Honorable Judge Kathleen Mulligan with the Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas, Family Division.  In 2002, Lee received the 2002 CALI Excellence for the Future Award(R) in Advanced Intellectual Property.

Experience

Before practicing as an attorney, Lee worked in the information technology ("IT") field for several years, including system, network, Oracle/SQL Server database administration, and helpdesk support. She also helped the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center establish its first filmless radiology system in 1997.

Lee previously practiced with the intellectual property departments of other major firms in Pittsburgh before joining Tucker Arensberg. 

Admissions

Lee is admitted to practice before the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, the United States Patent and Trademark Office as a registered patent attorney, the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania, the Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia, and the Federal Circuit. Lee is a member of the Allegheny County Bar Association, the American Intellectual Property Law Association, and the Federal Circuit Bar Association.

Speaking engagements

In 2005, Lee participated in the US Copyright Office Roundtable on the subject of orphan works at the Rayburn House Office Building in Washington, D.C.  In 2008, she gave a presentation on the basics of intellectual property to Duquesne University and the Keystone Innovation Central Zone.

Publications

Lee authored an article entitled "An Overview of Trade Secrets Law" in the October 2008 issue of “Iron & Steel Technology Magazine.”  She also authored an update to "Trade Secrets Practice in California," published by the California Continuing Education of the Bar (Berkeley, California) while working as an intellectual property summer associate in Los Angeles.

Community service

Lee is a member of the Partners Board of the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust and also a member of the programming committee of the MIT Enterprise Forum.

Lee volunteers as a lawyer for Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts, a program sponsored by the Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council. The aim of this program is to provide pro bono assistance to low-income artists and smaller sarts organizations for arts-related legal needs.

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