Mike Malek

Experience

1. of Counsel

   Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox

   Mar 2014 — Present

   Michael R. Malek is counsel in Sterne Kessler’s Electronics Practice Group where he specializes in developing ideas for patenting, drafting patent applications, and prosecuting patent applications at the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and abroad. He has drafted over 500 patent applications and responded to more than communications from the USPTO and abroad. Michael has a versatile practice covering numerous technologies in the electrical and the mechanical arts. His practice spans numerous disciplines from terrestrial and satellite communication systems, including wireless and wireline communications in the electrical arts, to stadium construction and design in the mechanical arts. Michael has significant experience in analog and digital signal processing for communications systems, power management and processing systems for consumer electronic devices, memory devices for computing systems, complex audio and video processing for three-dimensional display devices, artificial intelligence for electronic circuit design and layout, and semiconductor device design, manufacture, and fabrication. Michael also provides strategic guidance in post grant proceedings at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board. He currently represents both petitioners and patent owners in inter partes review proceedings involving technologies ranging from medical devices to error correction for communication systems. He assists in the mentoring and training of new associates, student associates, patent agents, and technical specialists at Sterne Kessler. Michael was a member of the firm’s Patent Practice Committee helping to ensure Sterne Kessler’s policies and procedures are in compliance with USPTO rules and regulations. He previously led weekly training programs to discuss new decisions from the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and the United States Supreme Court as well as other legal issues in an open forum.

Skills

• Client Counseling
• Software Patents
• Patent Applications
• Product Development
• Communication Systems
• Electronics
• Appeals
• Patents
• Electrical Engineering
• Legal Advice
• Signal Processing
• Ic
• Verilog
• Reexamination
• Pcb Design
• Rf
• Hardware
• Semiconductors
• Registered Patent Attorney
• Telecommunications
• Invention
• Patent Prosecution
• Manufacturing
• Wireless
• Ip
• Due Diligence
• Prosecution
• Patent Litigation
• Nanotechnology
• Microwave
• Patent Portfolio Analysis
• Intellectual Property
• Legal Writing
• Satellite Communications
• Patentability
• Technology
• System Architecture
• Legal Research