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Lynch, Michael L
Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner, P.A.
8911 Capital of Texas Highway, Suite 4150 Austin , TX 78759
Phone:
512-628-9320
USPTO Registration No: 30871
Registered Dec 20, 1982 as Attorney
Biography
Michael Lynch is a registered patent attorney and shareholder whose practice is focused on prosecution, IP development and enforcement strategies, complex licensing and opinions. Mike received his J.D. from the University of Houston Law Center in 1981, where he was an Editor of the Law Review. 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). 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. Mike 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.