Michael provides strategic counsel on the availability and adoption of trademarks as well as the management and enforcement of trademark portfolios in the United States and abroad.

He also represents clients in opposition and cancellation proceedings before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s Trademark Trial and Appeal Board and various U.S. district courts.

Keenly adept at managing and enforcing domestic and international intellectual property rights, Michael is a go-to resource on trademarks, copyrights and other IP-related issues for clients in the telecommunications, computer software and technology, entertainment and sports, pharmaceutical, chemical, food and beverage, publishing, scientific research and apparel industries.

In addition, Michael routinely advises on Internet and domain name disputes and handles IP transactions involving trademark and copyright licenses, due diligence and portfolio audits. He also counsels clients in U.S. and foreign copyright matters, U.S. customs enforcement, branding, false advertising, right of publicity and labeling issues.

Michael has been recognized for eight consecutive years in the World Trademark Review 1000 (a guide to the world's leading trademark practitioners) as having "a cross-cultural attitude and can easily jump into somebody else’s mindset and way of thinking"; having "exceptional multi-jurisdictional knowledge" (2012); as "a committed adviser to an international set of rights holders which value his sophisticated global outlook" (2013); as a "skilled and internationally minded" IP attorney (2014); and his "European experience and expertise are a boon when working on international matters and are complimented by an encyclopedic knowledge of US Law" (2015).