Michael Ross Email & Phone Number

Michael Ross has been practicing law for over 20 years and is registered to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. His practice focuses on helping clients with general legal matter, including with intellectual property (patent, trademark, copyright, trade secret) and commercial matters.Exemplary legal services:• Negotiating and managing domestic and international commercial and intellectual property contracts.• Building large, international trademark and patent portfolios. • Preparing and prosecuting U.S. original patent applications and their foreign counterparts. • Managing copyright, trade secret, unfair competition and antitrust matters.• Conducting freedom-to-operate (infringement risk assessment) issues for large scale commercial operations.• Managing adversarial court and administrative proceedings (e.g., breach of contract, Oppositions to Grant, Protests, Cancellation Proceedings, and litigation).• Advising and clearing marketing & advertising materials (e.g., copyright and trademark clearance, Section 5(a) FTC Act compliance). • Estate planning for business owners, including buy-sell agreements and continuity planning.Representative technology areas: synthetic textiles and upholstery technology; zeolite synthesis and characterization, petroleum refinery processes and hydroprocessing equipment, base oils, organic lubricating and fuel oil additives, hydroprocessing catalysts, refining of bio-derived feedstocks and applications for bio-derived materials, industrial boilers, circuit board materials and architectures, secondary batteries (stationary and motive applications for lithium-ion batteries, e.g. electric vehicles), battery cathode materials and their manufacture, organic battery electrolytes, battery manufacturing methods, catheters, polymeric materials, and drilling technologies.