Michael J. Riesen is an associate in the Intellectual Property Department and a member of the electrical and communications and the software and business methods practice teams in the Patents Group. He is experienced in patent prosecution and also counsels in such IP-related areas as trademarks, copyrights, and trade secrets.
Mr. Riesen's patent prosecution work includes patent application preparation, appeal briefs, opinions on patentability and infringement, international filings, and interviews with patent Examiners. He has significant experience in the electrical arts, including digital signal processing, wireless communications, optics, beam forming, alternative energy, human machine interfaces, medical devices, RFID systems, software and business methods, robotics, and control systems, among others.
Before becoming an attorney, Mr. Riesen clerked for a law firm in Ohio, conducting novelty searches, trademark clearance searches, and trademark applications for registration.
Mr. Riesen's graduate engineering research focused on artificial intelligence, machine learning, and data mining and pre-processing. His electrical engineering/computer science thesis centered on Bayesian Belief Networks, criminology/victimology prediction software platforms, and machine learning algorithms and data processing.