Michael Langer

About Michael Langer

I provide practical, strategic patent counsel to clients of all sizes, including universities, emerging and mid-sized companies and large corporations. My objective is to help clients identify and protect what makes them different from their competition with patents. I partner with my clients to thoroughly understand their technologies, which enables me to develop patent strategies consistent with their goals.I have experience working on a broad range of technologies, but have particular experience with technologies in the chemical and life science arts.My chemical experience includes: • Alloys• Analytical reagents• Catalysts • Chemical processing methods• Coatings • Consumer products• Dyes and Pigments• Food products• Liquid crystals• Luminescent compounds• Nanomaterials• Polymers• Pharmaceutical compounds• Water purification methodsMy life science experience includes:• Diagnostics• Laboratory Equipment• Medical devices• Medical and biological imaging (e.g. fluorescence imaging, magnetic resonance imaging, radiography, spectroscopy, thermography)• Research tools and methods• Therapeutics I work extensively with large research institutions and universities across the country. I helped develop and implement the Michael Best University Patent Practice, which provides a variety of features designed to develop close working relationships with technology transfer offices and faculty, and to enable Michael Best to serve as a strategic partner with our university clients. I also represents numerous start-up companies and university spin-offs with their patent needs.

Experience

1. Patent Counsel

   Michael Best

   May 2010 — Present

   Licensed to practice law in Oregon (inactive bar membership) and Wisconsin (active bar membership)Licensed to practice before the US Patent and Trademark OfficeNot admitted to practice law in Utah; practice limited to patent matters before the US Patent and Trademark Office

Education

• University of Wisconsin Law School

  JD

  2001 — 2004

• University of Utah

  MS Biochemistry

  1997 — 1999

• St. Olaf College

  BS Chemistry

  1992 — 1996