Dr. Michael Sartori is chair of Venable's Patent Prosecution practice. As a registered patent attorney, he focuses his practice on patent prosecution, patent litigation, and patent portfolio counseling. He works in the general areas of electrical, computer, software, communications, electro-mechanical, and mechanical inventions.

He prepares and prosecutes patent applications before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and directs worldwide patent prosecution. Dr. Sartori has extensive experience with reissue patent applications, reexamination patent applications, and successfully appealing patent applications to the Office's Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences. He renders patentability, clearance, infringement, validity and enforceability opinions, structures and negotiates patent licenses, and enforces and defends against patent rights.

Dr. Sartori is listed in The Best Lawyers in America and several Who's Who publications including Who's Who in American Law and Who's Who in America.

Dr. Sartori's counsel benefits clients desiring to obtain, enforce, and license patents in the U.S. and abroad, and to defend against patent assertions. His experience as a researcher and as a former Patent Examiner provide a unique perspective to the patent system.

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