Michael W. PiperShareholder/Director |
MICHAEL W. PIPER - Shareholder/Director
BiographyFor his clients, Michael Piper draws upon his experience in all areas of intellectual property law and his leadership efforts for the firm and on the Board of the American Intellectual Property Law Association to provide effective “in-house counsel” guidance from their outside counsel. The goal is to deliver key value in alignment with the business objectives of the client rather than pursuing legal options strictly on their own merits. In support of the clients’ business goals, Mr. Piper currently spends much of his time in development and management of IP and patent portfolios and oversight of preparation and prosecution as well as counseling and representation to achieve successful resolution or avoidance of IP conflicts for his clients. In his leadership roles, Mr. Piper practices the art of consensus building through careful listening, patient but persistent engagement, and innovative solutions to achieve desired results. Mr. Piper has dealt extensively with the preparation and prosecution of U.S. and foreign patent applications, the preparation of legal opinions, and the litigation of patents, with particular emphasis on telecommunications products and services and supporting software and infrastructure, computer enterprise architecture and middleware solutions and processes, enterprise security and vulnerability software, search software, and other software generally, oilfield technology, computer and electronic components, chemical processes and products, and mechanical technology in general. Mr. Piper has also had significant experience in trademarks, trade secrets, and copyrights including litigation, registration, prosecution, and counseling. A primary focus of Mr. Piper's in-house experience was the evaluation and negotiation of various IP agreements, including software and patent licenses, and key IP provisions in other agreements, including merger and sale agreements both by asset transfer and sale of stock. Mr. Piper is a founder of the Firm's Dallas office. Mr. Piper has been active in the leadership of the American Intellectual Property Law Association, an approximately 16,000 member bar organization of IP practitioners. In addition to his current role on the Board of Directors, he helped start the AIPLA Online Programs Committee and received the AIPLA President's Award for Outstanding Service for 2006 for those efforts. He was also the founding chair of the Public Education Committee which is at the forefront of the challenging but important goal of finding ways to deepen and enlighten the understanding of the value of Intellectual Property system to our every day lives, its historic origins in our constitution, and its continuing significance to the economic and innovative success of our nation. Prior to joining the Firm, Mr. Piper had previously enjoyed working in a variety of Intellectual Property practices, from a small to a large firm in private practice, to time spent as an in-house IP counsel with ARCO. Mr. Piper attended Texas A&M University where he received his B.S. in mechanical engineering, with Honors in 1991. He received his Doctor of Jurisprudence with honors in 1994 from the University Of Texas School Of Law. While at the University of Texas, Mr. Piper was one of the founding members of the Texas Intellectual Property Law Journal and served as its Technical Editor. Practice AreasEducationJ.D., Honors, 1994
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