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Michael E. Shanahan is a partner in the law firm of McDermott Will & Emery LLP based in the Firm's New York office. As a member of the Intellectual Property, Media & Technology Department, Michael focuses his practice on intellectual property litigation including patents, trademarks, copyrights, unfair competition and misappropriation of trade secrets. He also has extensive experience counseling clients in transactional and patent prosecution matters regarding patents and other forms of intellectual property.
As a registered patent attorney, Michael devotes a substantial part of his practice to counseling clients on enforcing, acquiring, evaluating, licensing and protecting intellectual property assets. He represents clients in litigation matters, licensing transactions and technology-related agreements, joint ventures, IPOs, mergers and acquisitions and provides IP-related business counseling. He conducts patent and intellectual property due diligence, patent assertion and infringement investigations including the evaluation and assessment of third party IP litigation for non-litigants, patent clearance analyses, right to use, validity and enforceability studies and provides patent infringement and non-infringement opinions. Michael further practices in both foreign and domestic patent prosecution matters including, reexamination, reissue, appeals and interference.
Michael has represented clients in a wide range of technologies including Internet and storage system management software, interactive program guides, electronics, including analog and digital integrated circuits, microprocessors and programmable logic devices, financial and business methods including trading and quoting tools, complex physics technologies including nuclear magnetic resonance imaging, coriolis mass flow sensors and confocal microscopy, medical devices, gaming systems, chemical technologies including phenol production, telecommunications systems and fiber optics, mechanical and electro mechanical devices, manufacturing technologies, aerospace systems, gas turbines and construction tools.
Michael authored "Preliminary Injunctions in Patent Cases" for IP Litigation Quarterly, June 2004 and "The Effects of Foreign Patent Proceedings on Patent Litigation in the United States" for The Intellectual Property Strategists, December 2004.
Prior to entering the practice of law, Michael was an electrical engineer in the guidance systems division of a major defense contractor and worked on many high profile projects such as the International Space Station and F-22.
Michael earned both a bachelor's and master's degree in electrical engineering, as well as a master's degree in computer engineering. He is admitted to practice in New York and before the U.S. Supreme Court, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York , the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York and the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Education
New York Law School, J.D., 2000
Manhattan College, M.S., 1996
Manhattan College, M.S., 1994
Manhattan College, B.S., 1992 | 