Kimberley Chen Nobles is a partner in Dickstein Shapiro’s Intellectual Property Practice. Ms. Nobles focuses her practice on representing technology companies worldwide in legal, technical, strategic planning, and intellectual property matters. Her practice covers a variety of business transactions and the protection, management, and monetization of intellectual property, including patents, trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets, dispute resolution, and litigation. Ms. Nobles handles and supports complex litigation and arbitration matters internationally and across the United States.

Ms. Nobles has significant experience as an arbitrator before the World Intellectual Property Organization in Geneva, Switzerland and is an adjunct professor at the University of California, Irvine, School of Law. Ms. Nobles, who is fluent in Mandarin, Cantonese, and Taiwanese, adds significant depth to the firm’s capabilities in serving the Asian market, particularly in China, Taiwan, Japan, and Korea.

Ms. Nobles also has extensive experience in the preparation and prosecution of patent applications in diverse technical areas, including communications, electronic systems and devices, semiconductor devices and processes, computer hardware and software, optical devices and components, biomedical systems, medical devices and systems, and electromechanical and mechanical devices. Ms. Nobles also counsels clients on internet issues and trademark matters, including privacy and data collection issues, acquiring and maintaining U.S. and foreign trademarks, conducting searches, and analyzing infringement matters.

Ms. Nobles has an extensive and wide variety of litigation experience before courts and administrative tribunals at all levels, including cases before federal courts and the International Trade Commission, from pre-suit investigations through trial and appeal.

Bar Admissions

California
District of Columbia
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit

Education

Ohio University, B.S.E.E., with high honors
Ohio University, M.S.E.E.
University of Southern California, Ph.D. Candidate
University of Southern California, J.D., Order of the Coif