Michael Dunnam is a registered patent attorney, and his professional focus includes management of intellectual property matters for foreign and domestic clients, including drafting hundreds and prosecuting thousands of patent applications in a wide variety of electronic, software, electrical, and mechanical arts. He has also served clients by conducting numerous infringement and validity studies; participating in all phases of litigation except trial; preparing licensing and joint venture agreements; providing counseling regarding software trademark and copyrights; providing business counseling and strategic planning in the intellectual property area to startup technology companies; conducting patent due diligence and strategic planning; and performing strategic intellectual property portfolio management.

Michael’s representative arts include telephony, audio/video, signal processing, computer hardware and software, Internet, computer graphics, magnetic resonance imaging, ultrasound, medical electronics, wireless power systems, laser optics, RFID, electro-mechanical systems, circuits, compressors, and a variety of business method technologies.

Michael served as an adjunct professor at the Law School of the University of Pennsylvania in the Detkin Intellectual Property Law Clinic from 2015-2017 and taught in the Advanced Patent Prosecution Workshop at the Practising Law Institute from 2012-2019. He also served as an adjunct professor at Temple University in the Beasley School of Law from 2012-2016 and was a guest lecturer in the Detkin Intellectual Property Law Clinic from 2012-2014.

Representative Patents

• 4,794,838
  Constantly changing polyphonic pitch controller
• 5,054,489
  Magnetic resonance imaging using spatial modulation of magnetization
• 5,790,837
  Method and system for device virtualization based on an interrupt request in a dos-based environment
• 6,230,521
  Method of recycling batches of mixed color cullet into amber, green, or flint glass with selected properties
• 6,442,370
  System and method for computer-based test creation
• 7,181,493
  Platform independent model-based framework for exchanging information in the justice system
• 8,686,727
  CEST MRI methods for imaging of metabolites and the use of same as biomarkers
• 8,942,659
  Method for selecting state of a reconfigurable antenna in a communication system via machine learning
• 9,754,717
  Method of and apparatus for generating an adjustable reactance
• 10,685,743
  Data Command Center Visual Display System

Publications

• Board of Editors of American Lawyer Media’s Advising Start-Up and Emerging Companies Newsletter, 2000-2003,
• Article on Business Method Patents in Feb. 2002 American Lawyer Media’s Advising Start-Up and Emerging Companies Newsletter
• Article on Patent Due Diligence submitted Mar. 2003 American Lawyer Media’s Advising Start-Up and Emerging Companies Newsletter
• “Recognizing Tech Diamonds in the Rough,” Philadelphia Business Journal, March 28, 2003
• “Responding to the ‘Difficult’ Obviousness Rejection,” presented at AIPLA Annual Meeting, 2004
• “PTO Breaks the ‘State Street Bank’ Test For Statutory Subject Matter With a New ‘Technological Arts’ Requirement,” Journal of Washington State Patent Law Association, Feb. 2005
• “Eligible Subject Matter After In re Bilski,” presented at AIPLA Annual Meeting 2008
• “Successfully Prosecuting Patent Applications in the USPTO,” Patents in the USA, Guide for Japanese Executives, published as supplement to Intellectual Asset Management magazine, 2008
• “Life After Bilski: Has Bilski Provided the Clarity We Had All Hoped For?” presented at AIPLA Mid-Winter Meeting, 2011

Speaking Engagements

• Philadelphia Entrepreneurship Day, 2000
• AIPLA Spring Meeting, 2000, on Business Method Patents
• Speaker, AIPLA Advanced Computer/Electronic Patent Practice Seminar, 2000, on Counseling Startup Companies
• Guest Speaker in e-Commerce class at Fox Business School at Temple University, 2001
• AIPLA Spring Meeting, 2001 on Business Method Patents
• Partnering in Patents Program with USPTO, 2001, on Pet Peeves between bar and USPTO
• AIPLA Advanced Computer/Electronic Patent Practice Seminar, 2002 on drafting and enforcing business method, software and e-commerce patents
• Partnering in Patents Program with USPTO, 2002 on Pet Peeves between bar and USPTO
• AIPLA Annual Meeting, 2004 on responding to the difficult obviousness rejection
• Guest Speaker in Entrepreneurship Class at Temple University, 2000-2005
• American Conference Institute’s Corporate Counsel’s Guide to Software
  Patents, 2006, on patentable subject matter for software patents
• Moderator and Program Chair, AIPLA Advanced Computer/Electronic Patent Practice Seminar, 2006
• Testified as patent expert witness for plaintiff in Checkpoint Systems, Inc. v. All-Tag Security S.A. et al., Civil Action No. 01-CV-2223 (E.D. Pa), Feb. 2007.
• AUTM Annual Meeting, 2007, on Patent Due Diligence
• AIPLA Annual Meeting, 2008 plenary session on In Re Bilski
• Moderator, LES Annual Meeting, 2008, on Patent Reform
• AIPLA Annual Meeting, 2009 IP in Japan Committee meeting, on Patentable Subject Matter
• Inequitable Conduct issues for Patent Practitioners, PIPLA monthly meeting, March 2010
• AIPLA Mid-Winter Meeting, 2010 IP in Japan Committee meeting, on Compact Prosecution
• Member of 2010 AIPLA delegation, before JPAA in Tokyo, Japan, on Compact Prosecution
• AIPLA Mid-Winter Meeting, 2011 plenary session on In Re Bilski
• Member of 2011 AIPLA delegation, before JPAA in Tokyo, Japan, on Amicus Briefs
• Member of 2013 AIPLA delegation, before JPAA in Tokyo and Osaka, Japan, on Patentable Subject Matter
• Organizer/Moderator, 2013 Patent Law Summit, San Jose, CA, on building and enforcing international patent portfolios
• Member of 2014 AIPLA delegation, before JPAA in Tokyo and Osaka, Japan, on Patentable Subject Matter
• AIPLA Annual Meeting, 2014 IP in Japan Committee meeting, on Patent-Eligible Subject Matter
• Moderator of 2015 ECLC meeting at AIPLA annual meeting on patent-eligible subject matter in US, China, Canada, and Europe
• Member of 2016 AIPLA delegation, before JPAA in Tokyo and Osaka, Japan, on Functional Patent Claim
• Japanese Patent Office Liaison Council Meeting, June 2014, on CLS Bank v. Alice
• Japanese Patent Office Liaison Council Meeting, June 2016, on Functional Patent Claims