Michael Fainberg
Michael provides strategic intellectual property counseling and global patent portfolio management.

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Michael is a patent attorney with an engineering background. His practice focuses on intellectual property (IP) counseling and global patent portfolio management. Michael has successfully obtained over 1,500 US patents and hundreds more internationally, spanning diverse technological fields, such as computer systems and software applications, microelectronics, telecommunications, cybersecurity, cloud computing, financial technologies (including blockchain and cryptocurrency), and artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML). Beyond his patent prosecution work, he represents clients in patent trials and post-grant proceedings, provides patent opinions, and offers strategic counsel in IP transactions.
Michael leads a team of patent attorneys and agents who have successfully obtained over 200 US patents for AI/ML-related technologies, with hundreds more patent applications pending. He also extensively speaks and publishes on topics related to the patenting of AI and software technologies.
Client Work
Michael develops and manages global IP portfolios for US and international technology companies:
- Managing the US patent portfolio for a rapidly growing international AI/ML solutions developer.
- Developing global patent and trademark portfolio for an international cybersecurity software provider.
- Assisting the world’s leading LCD/OLED display manufacturer with the US patent procurement. Accordion Toggle
Michael also represents companies in technology-related litigations and PGR proceedings:
- Inter Partes Review involving patent for data compression technology Acronis Inc. v. Realtime Data LLC
- Inter Partes Review involving patent for data backup technology Acronis Inc. v. Realtime Data LLC
- Patent infringement case involving data compression technology Realtime Data LLC v. Acronis Inc. Accordion Toggle
Previous Work
Prior to joining ArentFox Schiff, Michael was an associate in the New York office of a prominent law firm. He also worked as a patent agent while attending law school.
Press Coverage
- “How to Mitigate Section 101 Costs for Clients” on ManagingIP.com
- “PTAB to Review Realtime Data Patent in 6th IPR Challenge” on Law360
- “Accelerated Examination is Better Examination” on IPWatchDog.com
- “Apple, Samsung Go Head-to-Head Over Handset Patents” in Mobile Marketer
Publications, Presentations & Recognitions
Publications
- “Trends, Challenges, and Strategies of Patenting AI Innovations in the US,” China Intellectual Property & Innovation Summit 2024 (CISIP), November 2024, Beijing, China
- “Patenting Solutions in the Field of IT, Blockchain and Crypto Technologies: the US Experience”, III International Scientific and Practical Conference “Intellectual Rights: Challenges of the 21st Century”, November 2021, Tomsk, Russia
- “Successful Strategies for Patenting Cutting-Edge Computer and Software Technologies in the US,” China Intellectual Property & Innovation Summit 2018 (CISIP), April 2018, Shanghai, China Accordion Toggle
Recognitions
- The Legal 500 United States (2023 - 2024)
- International
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Languages
Russian
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Education
New York Law School, JD, 2005Polytechnic Institute of New York University, MS, Telecommunication Networks, 2001Polytechnic Institute of New York University, BS, cum laude, Computer Engineering, 2001