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Areas of Practice: Patents, Client Counseling.
Michael O’Brien is a patent attorney in Orange County, California. Mike’s expertise is in the economic value of invention. He has assisted hundreds of clients obtaining patents, enforcing patents, and defending against allegations of infringement. From large companies to smaller merchants, many in ecommerce have come to trust Mike for his creative solutions, dedication, and unique results. Mike researches how businesses choose to differentiate products and how businesses insure the risk of product differentiation against exclusive rights of others while creating risks for competitors at the same time. His published work and conferences presentations have made his solutions publicly available and subject to peer review. His current project is using set theory to more effectively tune large language model image recognition abilities to determine whether an object is infringing.
Mike is a magna cum laude graduate of the Catholic University of America Columbus School of Law. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering degree from the U.S. Coast Guard Academy and a Master of Business Administration from Saint Mary’s College of California with honors.
Bibliography:
O’Brien, M. and Margitay-Becht, A. (2018) Strategic Approaches to the Legal Environment of Business (Textbook, Brown Walker Publishing, Coral Gables, FL).
O’Brien, M. and Molina, I. (2016), Utilizing Signal Theory to Determine Patentability, J. Intel. Prop. L. 23(2) 241.
O’Brien, M. and Papagiannis, G. (2016) I Declare Bankruptcy: Examining the Law and Ethics of Lewellen vs. Access Group, Sage Business Case retrieved from http://sk.sagepub.com/cases/examining-the-law-and-ethics-of-lewellen-vs-access-group. doi: 10.4135/9781473997837.
O’Brien, M. (2015), Harmonizing Competing Legal Theories in Patent Law, Antitrust Law and the First Amendment, Journal of Legal, Regulatory and Ethical Issues, 19(2).
O’Brien M. (2011), Derivation and the Patent Reform Act of 2009, 4(2) J. L. Phil. & Culture 155-181.
O’Brien M. (May 2011), Developments in Walker Process Litigation, AIPLA Antitrust Newsletter.
O’Brien M., & Webb, J. (2009), Cardinal Avery Robert Dulles, SJ, J. L. Phil. & Culture 3(1) 3-8
Education:
Catholic University of America Columbus School of Law
Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering, U.S. Coast Guard Academy
Master of Business Administration, Saint Mary’s College of California