Mr. Messinger is a director in the Electronics Group. He works with company managers, directors and employees to identify and leverage intellectual property assets. He has extensive experience prosecuting U.S. and international patent applications and developing strategic patent portfolios. He has written and prosecuted numerous patent applications including those related to computer networking (Internet, World-Wide Web, Java technologies), communications protocols, high-speed optical communications, photonics, graphics processing, data mining, voice-over-IP, cryptography, spread spectrum technology, and multi-processor computer architecture. He has handled complex patent matters involving appeals reissue and re-examination. Mr. Messinger has also provided infringement and validity analysis in opinion work and in support of litigation for computer-related patents.
Prior to joining Sterne Kessler, Mr. Messinger worked as a patent agent. He was a patent examiner for over six years in Group 2500 (Radiant Energy) at the United States Patent and Trademark Office. He examined patent applications and granted U.S. patents covering a variety of optical electronic circuits and systems including video camera inspection systems, scanners, fiber optic sensors, imaging CCD arrays, and photosensitive semiconductor junctions. Mr. Messinger regularly publishes and speaks on emerging topics in patent strategy and practice in the United States and abroad.
Mr. Messinger taught for several years at the Patent and Trademark Office University and Northern Virginia Community College in the areas of patent law, intellectual property law, and business organization. He currently is an adjunct professor for Patent Application Drafting at George Mason School of Law. Mike is the VA and DC area coordinator for the Cyprus Friendship Program.
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