Keith Lim

Keith Lim creates and delivers intellectual property (IP) strategies tailored to meeting clients’ business goals.  With extensive experience in due diligence for investment rounds and acquisitions, IP risk assessment for product launch and development, global IP prosecution strategy, competitor patent risk assessment, and years of technical experience, Keith brings breadth and depth of technical and legal knowledge to a solving wide range of IP matters including:

• Patents
  • Patent Prosecution Strategy Aligned with Business Goals
  • Targeted Patent Prosecution related to Competitor Products
  • Competitor Patent Assessment and Litigation Activity Assessment
  • Analyses regarding Patent Validity and Infringement
  • Prior Art Searches for Patentability
  • IP Ownership Issues
• Agreements/Licensing
  • Open Source Licensing and Risk Assessment
  • SaaS, IP Licensing, and IP Assignment Agreements
  • Customer, Supplier, Employee, and Independent Contractor Agreements
  • Profit Sharing Agreements
  • Cease-and-Desist Letters
• Trademark Strategy and Prosecution

Keith provides legal advice to a wide variety of clients ranging from Fortune 500 to start-up companies.  His strategies and analyses spread over a wide range of technology, including distributed computing and storage systems, machine learning and artificial intelligence, online retail systems, online advertising and e-commerce, digital content distribution, mobile applications and gaming, social networks, augmented reality, fintech, IoT, SaaS, big data analytics, blockchain, medical devices, autonomous vehicles, electronics, communication systems and transceivers, antenna arrays, digital signal processing, semiconductors, 5G technology, user interfaces, sensor systems, mechanical products, wearable devices, and many others.

Before attending law school at the University of Michigan, Keith received his bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, worked at Lockheed Martin Corporation as an electrical engineer and programmer, where he graduated from the Lockheed Martin Leadership Development Program, completed his Master’s degree in Systems Engineering at Cornell University, obtained his own patent, and became the youngest member of Lockheed Martin’s Patent Review Board. Keith's technical experience involves FPGA firmware coding, system architecture for transceivers, RF path analysis and RF component selection/assessment, Matlab and C++ coding, and hands-on integration and test for radar systems, sonar systems, maritime systems, and a space fence design.