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Dallas
Granite Park Three
5601 Granite Parkway, Suite 750
Plano, Texas 75024
972.731.2288 Phone
972.731.2289 Fax |
Education
J.D., Honors, 1994
University of Texas School of Law
Founding Member and Technical Editor of the Texas Intellectual
Property Law Journal
B.S., Mechanical Engineering, University Honors, 1991
Texas A&M University
Membership
- AIPLA, Chair Special Committee for Public Education
Michael Piper practices in all areas of intellectual property law. Mr. Piper currently spends much of his time in development and management of IP and patent portfolios and oversight of preparation and prosecution in support of those goals as well as counseling and representation to achieve successful resolution or avoidance of IP conflicts for his clients. 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.
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 has co-authored several papers including "Contracting
with Corporate Inventors & Key Personnel" and has been a lecturer and served as coordinator and moderator for a variety of continuing legal education programs. Mr. Piper is also active in the leadership of the American Intellectual Property Law Association having helped start the AIPLA Online Programs Committee and receiving the AIPLA President’s Award for Outstanding Service for 2006 for those efforts. Mr. Piper is currently the Chair of a new Special Committee on Public Education for the Association.
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
Mr. Piper is a member of the Texas bar and is admitted to practice before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and U.S. District Court, Northern, Southern, and Eastern Districts of Texas and is registered to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. |
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