Felicity (Sung Yeon) Kim, Ph.D.

Felicity's technical fluency spans mechanical design and simulation, microfabrication, and multi-omic biological analysis. She is experienced in finite element analysis (FEA/ABAQUS), computer-aided design (SolidWorks, PTC Creo), and manual lathe machining, soft lithography, and cleanroom fabrication. Felicity complements this hardware expertise with computational skills in Python, MATLAB, and R, and hands-on laboratory command of spatial transcriptomics, next-generation sequencing, confocal microscopy, and in vivo animal models. This combination allows her to engage substantively with inventors across a wide range of technologies and to translate complex innovations into clear, defensible patent claims. 

Before joining the firm, Felicity built a strong record connecting technology and IP strategy. As a PCI Fellow at the Penn Center for Innovation, she led dozens of full diligence reports assessing the technical, commercial, and IP posture of university-developed robotics and biotechnology/medical technology as well as conducted comprehensive prior-art and sequence analyses. During her PhD, Felicity served as a Venture Fellow at SOSV, a global deep-tech venture capital firm, where she evaluated emerging technologies and gained hands-on experience in technology translation and commercialization.