Patrick Michael is a trial lawyer who litigates intellectual property and technology cases, including patent infringement actions, trade secret disputes, copyright matters, and licensing conflicts, for both plaintiffs and defendants. He handles matters involving a wide range of technologies, including integrated circuits, electronic design automation, software, semiconductor fabrication processes/tools, computer networking, medical devices, and biotech and life science products. Patrick has first-chaired multiple high-stakes trials and international arbitrations, representing major technology companies in patent, copyright, and trade secret litigation throughout the United States.
Patrick handles cases involving semiconductor technologies, EDA place-and-route technology, vulnerability databases, virtual storage platforms, fiber optic cable technologies, FPGA technologies, integrated circuit testing, clock synthesizer technology, proprietary database structures, plasma etch reactors, protocol analyzer technologies, and optical endpoint detection systems.
Experience
Representative Matters
• Obtained plaintiff judgment for major software company after bench trial on defendant’s claims of equitable estoppel in competitor case involving EDA place-and-route technology.°
• Obtained plaintiff award for major EDA company after international arbitration on defendant’s claims of a license defense in competitor patent infringement action.°
• Obtained unanimous defense verdict for national laboratory after a three-week jury trial in a trade secret misappropriation action involving nanotechnology for use in inertial confinement fusion.°
• Obtained plaintiff award for medical device company in a trade secret misappropriation international arbitration involving devices for hand assisted laparoscopic surgery.°
• Represented major EDA company in competitor multipatent infringement action involving semiconductor place-and-route technology.°
• Represented major software company in competitor patent infringement, copyright infringement, and breach of contract action involving EDA and semiconductor IP technologies.°
• Represented major software company in multivenue competitor actions for alleged trade secret misappropriation and various contractual claims relating to software security technologies.°
• Won summary judgment of no trade secret misappropriation on eve of trial for major software company in competitor case involving vulnerability databases and related technologies.°
• Represented international data storage company in defense of multiple claims arising from major data center outage related to virtual storage platform and fiber optic cable technologies.°
• Won summary judgment and excluded plaintiff’s expert on eve of trial for semiconductor company in patent infringement action involving FPGA technologies, which ended multidistrict litigation battle.°
• Obtained defense judgment for semiconductor company in patent infringement action involving integrated circuit testing technology, which was affirmed on appeal by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.°
• Represented large semiconductor company and obtained multiple victories in patent infringement action, including at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, resulting in a royalty free CNS.°
• Represented semiconductor company in defense of patent infringement case involving clock synthesizer technology and on Federal Circuit appeal affirming all claims as unpatentable.°
• Obtained judgment and injunction for large internet company in multivenue patent infringement and trade secret actions involving proprietary database structures and technologies.°
• Represented semiconductor manufacturing equipment company in assertion of patent infringement action involving technologies for plasma etch reactors.°
• Obtained TRO, seizure order, and injunction for hardware company in direct competitor action for trade secret misappropriation involving protocol analyzer technologies.°
• Represented semiconductor manufacturing equipment company in enforcing patents and in defense of action for inventorship involving optical endpoint detection systems.°
• Obtained plaintiff verdict of $30.4 million for a major software company after three-week jury trial in a competitor copyright and patent infringement case involving EDA place-and-route technology.°
• Obtained defense award for biopharma client in an international arbitration on a patent license and trade secret dispute involving drug discovery technology in which plaintiff sought $500m in damages.°
°The above representations were handled by Mr. Michael prior to his joining Greenberg Traurig, LLP.
Recognition & Leadership
Awards & Accolades
• Recognized, Acritas Stars, Acritas Stars Independently Rated Lawyers, 2020
• Listed, The Legal 500 United States, Intellectual Property: Patents: Litigation, 2020
• Listed, Daily Journal, Top Intellectual Property Lawyers in California, 2017
• Recognized, Legal Services for Children, Pro Bono Advocate Award
Professional & Community Involvement
• Member, California Bar Association
o Member, Business Law Section
o Member, Intellectual Property Law Section
• Member, American Bar Association
• Member, San Francisco Bar Association
• Member, Intellectual Property Law Association
