Michael Lynch is a registered patent attorney and shareholder whose practice is focused on prosecution, IP development and enforcement strategies, complex licensing and opinions. Immediately prior to joining Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, Mike spent almost ten years as Chief Patent Counsel of Micron Technology, Inc. in Boise, ID. During his time at Micron, he managed and/or participated in virtually all aspects of IP development, management and enforcement. Prior to joining Micron, Mike was a shareholder in the IP specialty firm of Arnold, White & Durkee, in the Houston and Minneapolis offices. Before joining Arnold, White & Durkee, he was a patent attorney at Western-Atlas, where he previously worked, before and during law school, in the R&D labs developing well logging systems. Mike received his J.D. from the University of Houston Law Center in 1981, where he was an Editor of the Law Review. Over the course of his career, Mike has handled both litigation and prosecution in a variety of technologies, including: semiconductor structures and processing; oil and gas industry technologies, including drilling, completion, production logging and fluids recovery; medical devices, including cardiac pacemakers, surgical instruments and critical care hospital beds; electromagnetic railguns and seismic exploration systems. He has served as an adjunct professor of law, teaching courses in patent prosecution at both the University of Texas at Austin (1993-1995) and at William Mitchell College of Law (1995). He recently served as Project manager for the Semiconductor Industry Association, representing the U.S. semiconductor industry in negotiations with international semiconductor advocacy groups and with Trade and Customs representatives of various nations to achieve trade classification of multi-chip integrated circuits parallel to that of monolithic integrated circuits. Mike also recently served for six years as a Board Member of the Intellectual Property Owners Association, and is an emeritus member of the Association of Corporate Patent Counsel.

Areas of Practice:

• Business Methods
• E-Commerce
• Electrical
• Mechanical
• Medical Devices

Bar Admissions:

• Idaho
• Minnesota
• Texas
• U.S. Court of Appeals Federal Circuit
• U.S. District Court Southern District of Texas

Education:

• University of Houston Law Center, Houston, TX, 1981
  • J.D., Doctor of Jurisprudence
  • Law Review: Editor, Houston Law Review, 1980 - 1981
• Lamar University, Beaumont, Texas, 1973
  • B.S.
  • Bachelor of Science