Kim Bui is a patent attorney focusing on strategic patent portfolio counseling, portfolio management, application drafting, prosecution, and due diligencefor clients ranging from startups to multinational corporations. For over a decade, shehas combined technical depth and legal insight to help clients distill the intricate concepts behind their innovations into enforceable patent claims.
Kim manages hundreds of active patent matters for multinational companies across the technology, financial services, medical technology, and entertainment sectors, including matters in global jurisdictions. She also works closely with emerging companies, counseling them on building strong patent portfolios and crafting IP strategies that position them for venture capital funding and successful commercialization. In addition, she has provided freedom-to-operate, patent infringement, and invalidity analyses, and has performed due diligence in pre-licensing and litigation matters.
Fluent in Japanese, Vietnamese, and English, Kim has extensive experience advising clients both in the U.S. and around the world, particularly in Asia. Kim's lingual versatility enhances her rigorous technical and legal background, enabling her to develop a close familiarity with global clients’ business goals and provide counsel that aligns with and advances those goals.
Clients praise Kim’s ability to quickly grasp and deeply understand complex subject matter and to communicate technical details to the patent office in a clear and persuasive manner that effectively advances prosecution. She regularly supervises technology specialists, patent agents, and junior associates in various matters. Her practice has focused on advanced technologies including artificial intelligence and machine learning, reinforcement learning, generative AI, deep neural networks, computer vision, natural language processing, video coding, autonomous vehicles, robotics, medical devices, blockchain, acoustic engineering, e-commerce, and fintech.
Kim earned her Juris Doctor degree from the University of Miami School of Law and her master’s degree from the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems at MIT, where she performed interdisciplinary research in the areas of computer science, operations research, and economics. Her previous experience includes working at the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology Center in Singapore and the Building Research Institute in Japan.
In her leisure time, Kim enjoys spending weekends at the beach and traveling to destinations in Asia with her family during holiday breaks.
Pro bono activities
Kim’s pro bono practice includes working alongside Kids in Need of Defense (KIND) to help unaccompanied migrant and refugee children obtain lawful permanent resident status and work authorization in the U.S.
