Professionals

Mike practices in all areas of intellectual property, providing services for identifying, procuring, and enforcing intellectual property rights. In particular, 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 IP.

Prior to joining the firm, Mike spent time at a number of medical device companies developing and managing their IP portfolios and monitoring competitors. Mike 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 earning his law degree, Mike gained experience in a wide range of engineering positions and disciplines. From performing materials science research on cutting edge shape memory alloys at a national laboratory to implementing lean manufacturing techniques as a production engineer at a manufacturing plant, Mike has worked and participated in IP development in a number of areas. Mike also has first-hand experience, from a client’s perspective, in dealing with intellectual property matters, as he is also an inventor of an issued U.S. Patent.

Mike received his Bachelor of Science, magna cum laude, in 2008 from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology with a major in mechanical engineering, a minor in economics, and certificates in consulting engineering and management studies. He received his J.D. degree in 2011 from the Indiana University Maurer School of Law.

Mike is actively involved with Traders Point Christian Church, volunteers as a coach and practice judge for the IU Maurer School of Law’s national IP moot court teams, and enjoys participating in shooting competitions with friends and family.