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Dr. Miller has received the following awards for her legal accomplishments:
- Named to The Recorder's 2015 "Women Leaders in Tech Law" list for her achievements and demonstration of leadership within the tech industry.
- Recognized in The Legal 500 "United States 2015" as being an outstanding practitioner. In this guide, she was noted for her patent licensing and transactional work.
- Named in the Intellectual Asset Management (IAM) magazine 2015 "IAM Patent 1000" as one of The World's Leading Patent Professionals
- Named to the San Diego Business Journal (SDBJ) 2014 and 2015 "Best of the Bar" lists
- Giles Rich Intellectual Property Moot Court Competition, Western Regional Winner and National Semi-Finalist (2005)
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Kimberly J. Miller is a partner in the San Diego office of Knobbe Martens. Her practice includes portfolio management, strategic IP portfolio development, due diligence and market clearance, and licensing matters. Additionally, Dr. Miller’s practice includes obtaining and advising clients with respect to design patents. Her clients include individual inventors, venture funded start-ups, university spin-offs and publicly traded companies, and her practice spans a variety of technical disciplines, including chemistry, pharmaceuticals, polymers and biotechnology. She is a leader of the firm’s International Department and has conducted patent prosecution in over 45 foreign jurisdictions.
Dr. Miller’s notable successes include her representation of Alios BioPharma, Inc., which led to a $1.75 billion deal with Johnson & Johnson. She led the Knobbe diligence team and worked closely with Alios to zealously protect Alios’ interests in its negotiations. Additionally, she played a key role in the development and implementation of a licensing deal with Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Inc., that resulted in Vertex obtaining rights to two hepatitis C drug candidates from Alios in a transaction worth up to $1.5 billion, said to be the largest preclinical licensing deal in history. Dr. Miller was key in developing IP strategies for Alios, filing Alios’ patent applications, analyzing potential third party risks and strategies for market clearance, and assisting Alios in the due diligence aspects of the deals with Johnson & Johnson and Vertex. Dr. Miller also assisted Alios with Series B financing that resulted in Alios raising $41M in Series B financing for the development of their respiratory portfolio.
As a speaker on both intellectual property matters and gender in the legal field, Dr. Miller has organized and participated in various presentations on these topics. She is a member of the Lawyers Club where she organizes an annual monthly luncheon, and is active with the Association of Corporate Counsel and Athena in San Diego.
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Cases, Articles, Speeches & Seminars
Articles
K.J. Miller, "Practical Steps for Building a Strong Life Science Patent Portfolio,"Bloomberg BNA - Life Sciences Law & Industry Report (March 2015)
K. J. Miller, M. M. Abu-Omar, Eur. J. Org. Chem., 2003, 2003, 1294-1299
K. J. Miller, T. T, Kitagawa, M. M. Abu-Omar, “Hydroalkoxylation Reactions Catalyzed by Palladium(II) Complexes”, 222nd National Meeting of the American Chemical Society, Chicago, IL, August 2001.
K. J. Miller, T. T. Kitagawa, M. M. Abu-Omar, Organometallics, 20, 2001, 4403-4412.
K. J. Miller, J. H. Baag, M. M. Abu-Omar, Inorg. Chem, 38, 1999, 4510-4514.
K. J. Miller, J. H. Baag, M. M. Abu-Omar, “Palladium(II) Schiff-base Complexes and their Catalytic Reactivity,” 217th. National Meeting of the American Chemical Society, Anaheim, CA, March 1999.
I. J. Ball, S.-C. Huang, K. J. Miller, R. A. Wolf, R. B. Kaner, Synthetic Metals, 102, 1999, 1311-1312.
I. J. Ball; S.-C. Huang, K. J. Miller, J. Y. Shimano, R. A. Wolf, R. B. Kaner, “The Pervaporation of Ethanol/Water Feeds with Polyaniline Membranes,” International Conference on Synthetic Metals, Montpelier, France, July 1998.
Professional Memberships
American Chemical Society
American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA)
Association of Corporate Counsel - San Diego Chapter
Athena San Diego
Lawyers Club of San Diego