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Michele is a registered patent attorney with more than 25 years of experience representing domestic and international clients with their U.S. patent needs. She has spent her career working with chemical and life sciences companies providing comprehensive strategic counseling, including portfolio development, management and analysis, application drafting and prosecution; due diligence investigations for many business objectives; and pre-litigation analysis and preparation. Michele’s practice also focuses on post-grant proceedings before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board of the USPTO.

She advises clients in a wide range of industries, including pharmaceuticals; consumer products; life sciences; skin care and cosmetics; nutraceuticals; and chemicals, including agrichemicals, polymers, and petrochemicals; minerals and metals; and biotechnology.

Michele’s diverse practice has enabled her to provide full service and complex strategic counseling on U.S. patent validity and infringement issues, as well as matters involving patentability and priority of invention issues. She is also a frequent lecturer at U.S. and international legal and corporate seminars on a variety of patent law topics, including strategic considerations related to the America Invents Act (AIA), particularly post-grant proceedings and patent portfolio development. Michele has been recognized by The Legal 500 U.S. for patent prosecution, re-examinations, and post-grant proceedings; and for patent licensing. She was also listed in LMG Life Sciences as an Intellectual Property: Life Sciences Star.

Leadership roles Michele has served over the years include being a member of the firm’s management and compensation committees, and the firm’s hiring partner. She is currently leading one of the firm’s five practice groups.