Rudy Y. Kim

Rudy Kim is a partner in the Intellectual Property practice of Paul Hastings and is the Chair of the Litigation Department in Palo Alto.

Mr. Kim has over 20 years of experience representing clients in high-stakes IP and technology-related litigation involving patent infringement, trade secret misappropriation, and complex commercial claims in federal district and appellate courts, in private arbitration, and before the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) and the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO). He has also successfully tried criminal jury cases with the San Francisco District Attorney’s Office and regularly teaches Trial Advocacy classes at Stanford Law School.

Mr. Kim’s representative clients include AEM, Autodesk, Freescale (now NXP Semiconductor), Fujitsu, HP, Kahoot!, Logitech, Netgear, Palo Alto Networks, Silicon Image (now Lattice Semiconductor), Tencent, TSMC, and Uber. His matters have involved a wide range of complex, cutting-edge technologies, including:

• Autonomous vehicles
• Computer hardware and software
• Consumer electronics
• Data storage
• Network security
• Semiconductors (design and fabrication)
• Wireless communication
• Medical devices

Mr. Kim previously served as a law clerk to the Honorable Alan D. Lourie of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington, D.C. He is a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation, an honorary organization limited to one-third of one percent of lawyers licensed to practice in each jurisdiction. Mr. Kim has been recognized by the Best Lawyers in America for Litigation – Intellectual Property. He has also been recognized as a Law Firm Leader in Patent & ITC litigation by Lawyers of Color and by Who’s Who Legal: Patents.

Mr. Kim serves as a Vice Chair of the Patent Litigation Committee of the Federal Circuit Bar Association. He is a past President of the Asian Pacific American Bar Association of Silicon Valley and a member of the Silicon Valley Intellectual Property Law Association, the San Francisco Bay Area Intellectual Property American Inn of Court, the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association, and the International Association of Korean Lawyers.