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He has experience in a wide range of litigation, including jury trials, appeals, matters with governmental agencies and internal investigations. Having served as general counsel for a global food company, Mike has a unique perspective that leads to a practical and creative approach to optimize results for clients.\nMike began his career trying cases for the U.S. Attorney's Office in the Western District of Virginia, and has focused on representing clients in litigation, regulatory and white-collar matters, and investigations. Mike has regularly practiced in state and federal trial and appellate courts in false advertising and employment class actions, professional liability cases, trade secret misappropriation and other complex litigation, including in actions relating to alleged contaminants in products (heavy metals, glyphosate, PFAS, mycotoxins, phthalates). 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[Defendant] lost on every issue at trial after less than two hours of jury deliberation.” Also obtained related wins from IPR stage and from ITC hearings (on different patents).{{ FIELD }}Defended a large multinational information technology company in a multi-patent litigation pending in the Northern District of Texas, with accusations relating to high-speed technologies.{{ FIELD }}Defended a large multinational information technology company in an Eastern District of Texas patent litigation, with accusations relating to manufacturing software techniques.{{ FIELD }}Represented four major multinational technology defendants jointly in IPR and appeal; defended one client in an underlying Delaware patent litigation. Case involved accusations relating to memory techniques, reducing probe traffic and cache coherency concepts.{{ FIELD }}Defended a major multinational technology company in an Eastern District of Texas patent litigation, with accusations relating to translating virtual addresses in a system having multiple instruction pipelines.{{ FIELD }}Represented a global leader in cloud and digital technology in an IPR and appeal, as well as Delaware patent litigation. Case involved accusations relating to networking techniques for RAID memory systems.{{ FIELD }}Defended a leading electronics, appliances and mobile devices company in a Western District of Texas patent litigation, with accusations relating to standard essential patent issues and Bluetooth frequency hopping selection of communications channels.{{ FIELD }}Defended a major multinational technology company in a multi-patent litigation pending in the Eastern District of Texas, with accusations relating to processor architecture concepts, including SIMD floating point coprocessor techniques and memory applications.{{ FIELD }}Michael (Mike) is one of the country’s top patent litigators with a high-level background in technology and is located in the firm’s San Francisco office.\nMike has led teams for approximately 200 patent matters including in district courts, the PTAB, the Federal Circuit and the ITC. Mike is a first-call resource for many technology companies for their most significant and complex patent and related matters. Mike routinely counsels clients in the semiconductor, memory, telecom, medical device, networking, and virtualization spaces and has a strong focus on standards-based issues, crafting jury-friendly themes and litigating in Texas and Delaware courts.\nPrior to becoming a lawyer, Mike obtained nearly ten years of experience in industry, at Motorola focusing on trouble-shooting issues with high-tech instrumentation such as plasma etchers (as a semiconductor process technician) and in oil, gas and environmental labs focusing on mass spectroscopy and related instrumentation (as an analytical research chemist).\nMike has guided clients through all stages of the litigation and PTAB post-grant processes, from pre-suit investigations to jury trials and ITC hearings, and through appeals of each up to the Federal Circuit. Mike has achieved great success for his clients across the country at trial and developing cases for trial, including obtaining key deposition admissions, arguing key motions winning claim construction (Markman) positions.\nMike has been featured in the Am Law “Litigator of the Week” column multiple times, including for achieving a jury trial win in a heated competitor case and an award of attorneys’ fees, treble damages and injunction post-trial. Mike has also achieved significant pre-trial victories for his defense clients including full exclusion of the plaintiffs’ damages expert reports in separate litigations and a reduction of an adverse jury award to only $1.. Mike has argued in front of district courts and the PTAB multiple times and defended those wins on appeal at the Federal Circuit.\nPrior to joining King \u0026amp; Spalding, Mike focused on patent litigation at other nationally ranked firms throughout the country.\nMike has four sons who are the joy of his life. Mike also has a passion for pro bono work. Mike volunteers at the Marin County Law Library to assist pro bono clients and recently won $165,000+ in attorneys fees after securing a full win for one of his pro bono clients.  Partner Recognized within the top 100 attorneys in PTAB Litigation Patexia, 2025 Recognized for Litigation - Intellectual Property The Best Lawyers in America, 2024 Recognized for Patent Litigation: Full Coverage The Legal 500 US, 2018, 2021 Recognized as a “Key Lawyer” The Legal 500 US, 2021 Recognized within the top 100 in the Patent Litigation Report Patexia, 2025 Recognized IAM Patent 1000, 2020-2025 “Highly knowledgeable and experienced in all facets of patents and patent litigation, which he uses to achieve great results.” IAM Patent 1000 “Fantastic strategist who is extremely knowledgeable about the federal courts, especially in Texas.” IAM Patent 1000 “He has a keen technical ability along with practical judgment and a great ability to manage and run large teams – a combination of talents that is hard to find.” IAM Patent 1000 “Difference maker in Silicon Valley, impressing with his technical dexterity and trial proficiency.” IAM Patent 1000 The University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas School of Law Washington University in St. Louis Washington University in St. Louis School of Law California New York Texas Member, American Bar Association Member, California Lawyers Association’s Intellectual Property Law Executive Committee Member, Silicon Valley Intellectual Property Law Association Member, Federal Circuit Bar Association Member, Houston Intellectual Property Association Law Clerk, Honorable Rodney W. Sippel, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri Represented a leading semiconductor memory company in multiple patent matters based in Texas Courts, the PTAB and Federal Circuit with technologies targeted at memory module architectures. Represents multiple firewall and cybersecurity companies in patent matters pending in Texas and Delaware Courts, including the first multi-district litigation for Eastern District of Texas Judge Gilstrap. Represented a technology client in multiple patent matters based in an Illinois Court, the PTAB, the Federal Circuit, the Eastern District of Texas and the ITC. Illinois jury trial was a competitor case involving two patents relating to wireless and battery technology. Obtained complete jury trial verdict/win on all issues, including an award of treble damages, attorneys’ fees costs and permanent injunction. Court (in a post-trial opinion) stated: “This case was not close. [Defendant] lost on every issue at trial after less than two hours of jury deliberation.” Also obtained related wins from IPR stage and from ITC hearings (on different patents). Defended a large multinational information technology company in a multi-patent litigation pending in the Northern District of Texas, with accusations relating to high-speed technologies. Defended a large multinational information technology company in an Eastern District of Texas patent litigation, with accusations relating to manufacturing software techniques. Represented four major multinational technology defendants jointly in IPR and appeal; defended one client in an underlying Delaware patent litigation. Case involved accusations relating to memory techniques, reducing probe traffic and cache coherency concepts. 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