Mike L Wach

Mike Wach is employed at King & Spalding on the Intellectual Property Practice Group. Practicing as a consultant, he specializes in generating profit and business value from patent portfolios. Mr. Wach has helped clients holding significant patent portfolios develop patent licensing programs, including mining patent portfolios, identifying infringement, and conducting economic studies before initiating litigation. As a registered patent agent, he has assisted companies with patent prosecution, opinions, due diligence, and neutral expert services.

Mr. Wach’s technical expertise emphasizes optics as applied in biomedical instrumentation and optical communications. He has led research and development programs and has business operating experience, including founding and managing a company backed by approximately $20 million in venture capital.

Representative Medical Publications

• Buschman H, Marple E, Wach M, Bennett B, Schut T, Bruining H, Bruschke A, van der Laarse A, Puppels G. (August 2000) “ In vivo determination of the molecular composition of artery wall by intravascular Raman spectroscopy.” Analytical Chemistry, Vol. 72, No. 16, 3771-3775.



• Shim M, Wilson B, Marple E, Wach M. (June 1999) “A study of fiber optic probes for in vivo medical Raman spectroscopy.” Applied Spectroscopy, Vol. 53, No. 6, 619-627.



• Buschman H, Schut T, Bruining H, Marple E, Wach M, Bennett R, Bruschke A, van der Laarse A, Puppels G. (August/September 1999) “ In vivo determination of the molecular composition of artery wall by intravascular Raman spectroscopy.” European Conference on the Spectroscopy of Biological Molecules, Enschede, The Netherlands.



• Buschman H, Marple E, Wach M, van der Laarse A, Pupples G. (August/September 1999) “Histopathological assessment of atherosclerotic plaques by optical fiber-based Raman spectroscopy.” 21st Annual Congress of the European Society of Cardiology, Barcelona, Spain.



• Buschman H, Marple E, Wach M, van der Laarse A, Pupples G. (August/September 1999) “Histopathological assessment of atherosclerotic plaques by optical fiber-based Raman spectroscopy.” European Heart Journal, Abstr, Suppl, 68.



• Buschman H, Romer T, Wach M, Marple E, van der Laarse A, Bruschke A, Puppels G. (1999) “Human coronary atherosclerosis studied in vitro by catheter-based transluminal Raman spectroscopy.” SPIE, Vol. 3608, 12-17.



• Buschman H, Romer T, Wach M, Marple E, van der Laarse A, Bruschke A, Puppels G. (June 1999) “Human coronary atherosclerosis studied in vitro by catheter-based transluminal Raman spectroscopy.” International Biomedical Optics Symposium (BiOS’99), San Jose, CA.



• Puppels G, Van Aken T, Wolthuis R, Caspers P, Schut T, Bruining H, Romer T, Buschman H, Wach M, Robinson J. (1998) “ In vivo tissue characterization by Raman spectroscopy.” SPIE, Vol. 3257, 78-83.



• Puppels G, Van Aken T, Wolthuis R, Caspers P, Schut T, Bruining H, Romer T, Buschman H, Wach M, Robinson J. (January 1998) “ In vivo tissue characterization by Raman spectroscopy.” International Biomedical Optics Symposium (BiOS’98), San Jose, CA.



• Shim M, Wilson B, Marple E, Wach M. (1999) “Evaluation of fiber optic probes for in vivo Raman spectroscopy.” Proceedings of Infrared Spectroscopy: New Tool in Medicine, SPIE, Vol. 3257, 208-217.



• Shim M, Wilson B, Marple E, Wach M. (January 1998) “Evaluation of fiber optic probes for in vivo Raman spectroscopy.” International Biomedical Optics Symposium (BiOS’98), San Jose, CA.



• Shim M, Wilson B, Marple E, Wach, M. (October 1997) “Fiber optic light management for Raman analysis of absorbing and elastic scattering media: biological tissues.” 24th Annual Conference of the Federation of Analytical Chemistry and Spectroscopy (FACSS’97), Providence, RI. 

Civic

• Inaugural Board Director of Institute for Enterprise and Innovation. (2005-2008)



• Georgia Tech Excellence in Nanotechnology Committee. (2004)



• Technology Association of Georgia (TAG): founding Board Director of TAG Central. (2001 – 2003)



• Testified to the Georgia legislature on technology-based economic development. (1998)



• Georgia Tech regional and national Presidential Scholarship Committees. (1996 – 2003)



• Georgia Tech Leadership Development Committee. (2002)