Michael spent most of his career in patent law at Rothwell, Figg, Ernst & Manbeck in Washington, D.C, where he was a Law Clerk, Associate and then Partner at the firm. He also was patent counsel in the U.S. patent group of Akzo Nobel Pharma, a Dutch pharmaceutical company which comprised Organon, Organon Teknika, and Intervet.

Michael's practice throughout his career of more than fifteen years has been focused on pharma and biotech patent law, and has included patent preparation and prosecution, litigation, counseling, opinion writing, licensing, and due diligence investigations. While at Rothwell Figg, Michael was involved in a number of Hatch-Waxman litigations representing both brand name and generic drug companies. He also has written many opinion letters relating to infringement and validity, primarily in the areas of pharma and biotech. While at Akzo Nobel, Michael counseled scientists and the European patent group of the company, and prepared and prosecuted patents relating to pharma and biotech.

Prior to law school, Michael was a biologist at the National Institutes of Health, NICHHD, where he worked for Dr. Heiner Westphal in the Laboratory of Mammalian Genes and Development using transgenic mice as research models.


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