Michael P. Dunnam

Michael Dunnam is a registered patent attorney, and his professional focus includes management of intellectual property matters for foreign and domestic clients, including drafting hundreds and prosecuting thousands of patent applications in a wide variety of electronic, software, electrical, and mechanical arts. He has also served clients by conducting numerous infringement and validity studies and patent defenses at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board; participating in all phases of litigation except trial; preparing licensing and joint venture agreements; providing counseling regarding software trademark and copyrights; providing business counseling and strategic planning in the intellectual property area to startup technology companies; conducting patent due diligence and strategic planning; and performing strategic intellectual property portfolio management.

Michael has deep experience with technologies including artificial intelligence, software systems, blockchain, augmented and virtual reality, telephony, audio/video, signal processing, computer graphics, magnetic resonance imaging, ultrasound, medical electronics, wireless power systems, laser optics, RFID, semiconductors, electro-mechanical systems, circuits, compressors, and other mechanical and electro-mechanical systems.

Michael currently serves as an adjunct professor in the Intellectual Property clinic at Villanova Law School.  Michael previously served as an adjunct professor at the Law School of the University of Pennsylvania in the Detkin Intellectual Property Law Clinic from 2015-2017 and taught in the Advanced Patent Prosecution Workshop at the Practising Law Institute from 2012-2019. He also served as an adjunct professor at Temple University in the Beasley School of Law from 2012-2016 and was a guest lecturer in the Detkin Intellectual Property Law Clinic from 2012-2014.

Representative Experience

• Performed dozens of intellectual property due diligence investigations for startup technology companies.
• Counseled numerous early stage technology companies regarding patent portfolio development.
• Developed a patent portfolio with over 100 international patents for an electric vehicle charging company.
• Drafted and prosecuted hundreds of patent applications for well-known technology companies.
• Successfully defended several patents he drafted at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board during Ex Parte Reexamination and Inter Parties Examination.
• Testified in court as an expert on patent prosecution procedures in the USPTO.
• Spoken at numerous legal conferences regarding patent eligibility for software and electronics inventions and is a former member of the Section 101 Task Force of the AIPLA.
• Former patent examiner in color television and high-definition television arts.

Interesting Facts

Michael and his wife Lori have curled since 1989 and have three sons who curl, including two sons who curl competitively (including two-time participation in the curling Olympic trials).  Michael is currently a member of the Philadelphia and Bucks Country Curling Clubs, is a former president of the Philadelphia Curling Club, and has curled at numerous curling tournaments in the eastern USA, Canada, and in Scotland.  Michael also stays active with his fraternity brothers from Brown University, including golfing, fishing, boating, and enjoying the outdoors in Maine, Massachusetts, and New Jersey as well as attending Broadway shows.  Michael and Lori like to spend time at a family house at the Jersey shore and to travel internationally (but stay away from cruise ships).  Michael also loves his Philadelphia sports teams and his pets, particularly his sheepadoodle Tucker.