Michael Liu has over 15 years of intellectual property and patent experience with a background in the electrical engineering sector.
Michael has experience performing invalidity analysis to determine vulnerability of claims, drafting petitions for inter partes review, developing non-infringement positions by examining the alleged infringed products and providing due diligence in IP and patent portfolio matters. Michael also has experience in patent prosecution as a former primary examiner. He has worked on cases in a wide range of fields, including semiconductors, speech recognition, cryptography, communications, automobiles and medical devices.
Michael is not a lawyer.
Representative Experience
- Advised a communications company in a suit against a competitor for infringing patents for automatic speech recognition systems.
- Advised a software company in a suit against a competitor for infringing patents for cybersecurity.
- Advised a software company in a suit against a competitor for infringing patents for a browser application.
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- Advised a tobacco company attempting to enter the electronic cigarette market by first determining the validity of its competitors’ patents.
- Advised a medical device company determining whether a competitor had infringed its medical device patent.
Professional Highlights
- Bronze Medal Award for superior federal service, 2014
Education
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M.S., Electrical Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2005
B.S., Electrical Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2004
with Honors
Admissions
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U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
Languages
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Chinese (Mandarin)