Professionals

As an inventor of an issued U.S. Patent obtained during Mike’s time in engineering, Mike understands a client`s perspective in dealing with intellectual property matters. His practice encompasses all areas of intellectual property law, including identifying, procuring, and enforcing patents, trademarks, copyrights and trade secrets. Specifically, Mike has significant experience in preparing and prosecuting medical device and mechanical patent applications in the U.S. and abroad; providing freedom-to-operate, infringement/non-infringement, and invalidity/validity opinions; and monitoring competitor intellectual property.

Prior to joining the Firm, Mike spent time at a number of medical device companies developing and managing their IP portfolios and monitoring competitors. He also designed strategies and methods to identify competitors` infringing products and worked with engineers and researchers to design and patent around competitors’ patents. Prior to working in the medical field, Mike gained valuable experience performing materials science research on cutting edge shape memory alloys at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico and implementing lean manufacturing techniques as a production engineer at Cinak in Louisville, KY.

Mike is actively involved with Traders Point Christian Church and volunteers as a coach and practice judge for the IU Maurer School of Law`s national IP moot court teams.