Greg Michelson is the Administrative Partner of the Orange County office of Haynes and Boone, LLP and a partner in the Intellectual Property Practice Group. Greg provides strategic counseling, patent portfolio management, licensing, and has experience with post grant proceedings and IP litigation. He provides guidance in all aspects of intellectual property matters, including due diligence, opinions, as well as patent prosecution and litigation. Greg manages large, high technology patent portfolios and has prepared and prosecuted U.S. and foreign patent applications covering a wide variety of complex technologies, involving technology areas such as electrical devices, semiconductor processes, software and computer architectures, communication systems, medical devices, and mechanical devices. He also represents clients in inter partes review (IPR) proceedings at the Patent and Trademark Office. Greg supports patent litigations, including matters before the International Trade Commission (ITC) and federal district courts, for all phases of litigation from initial pre-filing analysis, to filing, discovery, depositions, expert reports, direct and cross-examinations, and briefs through trial.

In addition to his extensive legal experience and educational background in electrical engineering, Greg has more than seven years of technical engineering experience at Hughes Aircraft Company and TRW. At Hughes Aircraft Company, he performed hardware and software design analysis and test verification and development, for aircraft radar, communication, and associated systems. Greg was a systems engineer for satellite development at TRW where he performed system development and test along with payload performance analysis for complex communication systems.

In addition to his law degree, Greg holds M.S.E.E. and B.S.E.E. degrees in electrical engineering.