Michael is a skilled patent attorney and technology protection strategist. He works with both growing and established companies to create, manage, and improve patent portfolios both in the US and worldwide. He works closely with experts in key patent jurisdictions worldwide to maximize enforceability and business value of clients' intellectual property rights. Michael also advises clients on business-critical IP due diligence issues, patent portfolio valuation, and licensing agreements and has been instrumental in creative resolutions of potential IP roadblocks in high value transactions. 

Clients rely on Michael’s extensive experience, accumulated over 25 years of legal practice, to navigate the nuances of patent procurement and enforcement in Europe, including proceedings before European Patent Office’s (EPO) the Opposition Divisions and Board of Appeal and revocation proceedings before the European Union’s Unified Patent Court (UPC), Asia, Australia, and North and South America. His skills in mining existing patent assets to enhance their enforcement and business value and in designing and implementing programs for protecting ongoing innovations are highly sought after by cutting edge technology companies.

Michael combines a deep and broad technical background with extensive experience developing innovative legal strategies to address patent procurement and freedom to operate involving technologies in the mechanical arts, electronics, chemical engineering, fluid dynamics, aerosol physics, materials science, artificial intelligence/machine learning and other computer-implemented technologies, as well as the increasingly commercially important intersection of software and other technical fields such as drug delivery and other medical devices, analytical and sensing systems, transportation, manufacturing, and consumer products.