Michele Moreland Email & Phone Number

Palo Alto, CA, US

Tech for Rights transforms doom scrolling into activism with just a few clicks. Our platform seamlessly integrates fundraising tech with expert-designed, AI-optimized messaging to maximize impact. Our go-to-market focus areas are reproductive freedom, climate, and representative democracy.

Aventurine focuses on inventors, researchers and entrepreneurs developing the next generation of science based startups with strong and impactful market potential. We look for rich foundational intellectual property potential; our in-house IP strategy practice provides unparalleled assistance to our clients. Realizing that not every inventor is a nascent.

Patent Strategy, Portfolio Development, Litigation Management and Licensing.

San Francisco Bay Area

San Francisco Bay Area

San Francisco Bay Area

• Oversee assessment, valuation, acquisition and licensing of patents asserted by non-practicing entities against clients.
• Negotiate patent acquisition and license agreements, deploying millions of dollars to obtain 100+ dismissals for clients and their customers.
• Leverage litigation and licensing experience to improve function of client relations, client development and patent analysis teams and to develop new products and services.
• Acquisitions team liaison to RPX Insurance Services, responsible for mitigating risk to RPX’s insurance business.

San Francisco Bay Area

• Perform case management on high profile patent cases before district courts and the ITC.
• Develop and execute winning strategies: obtained pre-admission of client's evidence at pre-trial hearing, preventing pre-admission of other party's evidence and leading to settlement.
• First chair at ITC hearing and second chair on two cases, responsible for developing trial strategy and evidentiary support, preparing and examining witnesses, drafting opening statements and closing arguments.
• Design and run multi-day jury studies to test case themes, graphics, witness testimony, opening statements and closing arguments.
• Develop discovery plans and briefing strategies, draft dispositive and non-dispositive briefs, and take and defend depositions.

San Francisco Bay Area

• Member of four trial teams and responsible for trial preparation on 10+ patent cases, including scripting 20+ witness examinations and creating hundreds of trial graphics and witness examination at trial.
• Responsible for technical and non-technical expert witness identification and selection for bet-the-company litigations.
• Develop and execute plan on all aspects of discovery: manage e-discovery vendors, conduct witness interviews, witness selection, draft written discovery and take and defend depositions.
• Draft appellate, discovery and dispositive briefs, including winning summary judgment motions.

Ba, English

J.D., Law

Activities and Societies: Dean's List, American Jurisprudence Award, Women in Law