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Michael maintains a diverse patent practice leveraging significant experience in district court litigation, PTAB post-grant proceedings, and the rapid development of strategically built patent portfolios. He represents clients across a broad range of technologies, including including robotics, sensory systems, speech and voice processing, wireless tracking, automation and control systems, embedded systems, Internet of Things (IoT), financial technology (FinTech), and crypto assets.Michael’s district court experience includes every phase of litigation, from filing of the complaint through trial verdict. He has developed and executed successful litigation strategies for both patent owners and accused infringers, leveraging his broad experience spanning pre-filing investigations, developing infringement and validity positions, managing fact and expert discovery, building effective claim constructions, briefing dispositive motions, and taking and defending both fact and expert witnesses in depositions and at trial.Michael’s experience with post-grant proceedings goes back to the formation of the PTAB itself in 2012, serving as a lead associate on the first CBM review proceeding filed, argued, and decided. Michael has since litigated over 70 post-grant proceedings before the PTAB for both petitioners and patent owners. Michael’s experience on behalf of patent owners includes securing one of just eight Motions to Amend granted by the PTAB in its first 4.5 years of issuing decisions. Michael has particular insight into the interplay among district court patent litigation and PTAB post-grant proceedings—a topic on which he writes and speaks. Michael also maintains an active prosecution practice. Over his career, he has prepared and supervised the drafting of over a thousand patent applications filed with USPTO. He has managed the development of several large domestic and foreign patent portfolios covering an array of technologies from FinTech to sensor-based tracking systems to lenticular airships. With much of his prosecution experience gained through prosecuting software innovations in the FinTech space, both pre- and post-Alice, Michael has a keen understanding of patent eligibility under 35 U.S.C. § 101. Michael is a co-chair of Finnegan’s Blockchain, NFT, and Other Digital Assets industry group. Prior to joining Finnegan, he worked in integrated circuit design and developed testing software for modems, printing devices, cash acceptance systems, and other component devices of automated teller machines (ATMs).

Listed skills include Patent Prosecution, Intellectual Property, Litigation, Patent Litigation, and 13 others.