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Austin J. Kim

Senior Counsel

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Austin J. Kim

Senior Counsel

[email protected]

Boston 617.502.3295

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Education

Boston College Law School (J.D., 2014)
- Vice president, Intellectual Property & Technology Forum
- Senior note editor, Environmental Affairs Law Review
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (M.S., 2011)
- Electrical engineering
- Graduate-level studies focused on communications, digital signal processing, and natural language processing
- Conducted research on human speech recognition, University of Illinois Beckman Institute for Advanced Science & Technology
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (B.S., with honors, 2009)
- Electrical engineering
- Tau Beta Pi (national engineering honor society)
- Eta Kappa Nu (national electrical engineering honor society)

Admissions

Massachusetts
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

Austin J. Kim is a senior counsel and intellectual property lawyer with Foley & Lardner LLP. He is a member of the firm’s Electronics Practice as well as a member of the Automotive Industry Team and Innovative Technology Sector.

Austin counsels clients in strategic patent portfolio development through various stages in procurement and across multiple jurisdictions. He has prepared and prosecuted applications in the electric vehicle space, including fuel cells, autonomous driving, and remote controls. He also has experience in telecommunications, virtualization, cloud computing, web applications, and biomedical devices.

During law school, Austin served as a summer associate at Foley in 2013. Prior to joining Foley, he was a summer clerk in the intellectual property group at a large and prominent Korean law firm.