Josephine Kim is a director in Sterne Kessler’s Trial & Appellate Practice Group, as well as a member of the firm’s U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) Practice Group. She is an experienced intellectual property trial attorney focusing on complicated patent disputes before federal district courts, the ITC, and the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB). Josephine has advised clients and litigated cases involving a broad range of technologies, including pharmaceuticals, medical devices, vehicle systems, LEDs, and consumer products.
Josephine has expertise handling complex discovery matters and multi-defendant litigations. She also has deep expertise in ITC-specific issues such as domestic industry. Josephine is a co-author of the “Patent Litigation” treatise by Practicing Law Institute.
Josephine has been a member of Sterne Kessler’s Diversity & Inclusion Committee since 2017.
Josephine received her J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School, where she served as executive editor for the University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law. She also holds a Certificate in Business and Public Policy from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and earned her B.A. in molecular and cellular biology and english from the University of California at Berkeley.
- Profiles in Diversity Journal®, “Asian Leadership Awards” (2023)
- DCA Live, “Emerging Women Leaders in Law” (2023)
- J.D., University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
- B.A., Molecular and Cellular Biology; English, University of California at Berkeley
- California
- District of Columbia
- United States Patent & Trademark Office
- ITC Trial Lawyers Association
- Asian Pacific American Bar Association (APABA-DC)
- National Asian Pacific American Bar Association (NAPABA)
- Korean