Michelle Aspen

Michelle is an intellectual property litigator who has implemented cost-effective, winning strategies for clients in patent litigation suits across a wide range of technology areas, from consumer products to complex telecommunications systems.

Michelle has a high success rate in post-allowance proceedings before the United States Patent and Trademark Office in technology areas including content delivery, cloud communications, Internet-of-Things, transactional software, cybersecurity, semiconductor circuits, telecommunications, networking devices, video coding, 3GPP and Wi-Fi. She has evaluated the essentiality of standard essential patents, particularly in the video coding and Wi-Fi fields, and has supervised outside counsel in drafting challenges before the USPTO and the European Patent Office.

In addition, Michelle has successfully argued at the Federal Circuit and has supervised appellate counsel. She has led patent policy measures, such as drafting and overseeing amicus briefs, submitting comments on proposed regulations, and evaluating trends in litigation finance and standards licensing.

Michelle earned her J.D. from the University of Colorado Law School, where she worked on patent prosecution in the University’s Entrepreneurial Law Clinic. She earned her undergraduate degree in environmental engineering from Johns Hopkins University.