Dr. Michael Sartori is chair of Venable's Patent Prosecution practice. As a registered patent attorney, he focuses his practice on patent prosecution, patent litigation, and patent portfolio counseling. He works in the general areas of electrical, computer, software, communications, electro-mechanical, and mechanical inventions.
He prepares and prosecutes patent applications before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and directs worldwide patent prosecution. Dr. Sartori has extensive experience with reissue patent applications, reexamination patent applications, and successfully appealing patent applications to the Office's Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences. He renders patentability, clearance, infringement, validity and enforceability opinions, structures and negotiates patent licenses, and enforces and defends against patent rights.
Dr. Sartori is listed in The Best Lawyers in America and several Who's Who publications including Who's Who in American Law and Who's Who in America.
Dr. Sartori's counsel benefits clients desiring to obtain, enforce, and license patents in the U.S. and abroad, and to defend against patent assertions. His experience as a researcher and as a former Patent Examiner provide a unique perspective to the patent system.
Representative Clients
Dr. Sartori's clients include technology companies worldwide.
Industries
Government Contractors
Consumer Products and Services
Nanotechnology
Emerging Companies: Venable Venture Services
Toys and Games
Government Experience
Patent Examiner, United States Patent and Trademark Office
Senior Project Manager, Naval Surface Warfare Center, U.S. Navy
Memberships
American Bar Association
American Intellectual Property Law Association
News
September 14, 2011, 75 Venable attorneys listed in The Best Lawyers in America® 2012
December 13, 2010, Michael Sartori quoted in Global Toy News blog
August 23, 2010, 65 Venable attorneys receive 2011 Best Lawyers honors
November 5, 2009, Best Lawyers recognizes 24 Washington-area Venable attorneys in Washington Post supplement
August 25, 2008, Fifty-nine Venable Attorneys Earn Best Lawyers in America Honors
August 25, 2008, Venable Secures Victory in Internet Business Method Patent Dispute
September 12, 2007, Fifty-five Venable Attorneys Earn Best Lawyers in America Honors
January 2, 2003, Venable Promotes Four To Partner
Honors
Listed in The Best Lawyers in America, Technology Law (Woodward/White, Inc).
Listed in several Who's Who publications including Who's Who in American Law and Who's Who in America
Best Student Paper Award for article in the Journal of the Patent and Trademark Office Society, 1996
Patent Examiner, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, 1994-1996
Patent Academy Distinguished Graduate Award, 1995
Senior Project Manager, Naval Surface Warfare Center, U.S. Navy, 1991-1994
Publications
Dr. Sartori is a prolific writer and lecturer, including approximately forty technical publications and speaking engagements. He has published numerous articles in the fields of artificial intelligence, neural networks, system and control theory, image processing, signal processing, and underwater acoustics. He has also received four U.S. patents for his work as a researcher with the U.S. Navy's Naval Surface Warfare Center.
September 2011, Fee Increase at U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
Michael A. Sartori, Ph.D., Michael E. Nelson, Ph.D.
IP Buzz
February 2011, USPTO Proposes Mandatory Examination Delay for Foreign Priority Applications
Todd R. Farnsworth, Michael A. Sartori, Ph.D.
World Intellectual Property Report, BNA International
December 10, 2010, Protecting Your Intellectual Property; an Interview With Dr. Michael Sartori
Michael A. Sartori, Ph.D.
Global Toy News Blog
November 2010, "Patent Misuse Should be Only Narrowly Applied as an Infringement Defense"
William D. Coston, Peter Curtin, Julie A. Petruzzelli, Michael A. Sartori, Ph.D.
ABA Section of Litigation
2010, Software, E-Commerce, Internet, and Business Patents, Drafting Patents for Litigation and Licensing, 2010 Cummulative Supplement, BNA Books
Michael A. Sartori, Ph.D.
September 2010, Federal Circuit En Banc Decision Limits Patent Misuse Defense
William D. Coston, Peter Curtin, Julie A. Petruzzelli, Michael A. Sartori, Ph.D.
Client Alerts
July 2010, IP News & Comment - July 2010
William D. Coston, Todd R. Farnsworth, Ryan M. Flandro, Jeffri A. Kaminski, Michael A. Sartori, Ph.D., Janet F. Satterthwaite
IP Buzz
June 2010, U.S. Supreme Court Issues Long-awaited Bilski Opinion
Michael A. Sartori, Ph.D.
2009, Software, E-Commerce, Internet, and Business Patents, Drafting Patents for Litigation and Licensing, 2009 Supplement, BNA Books
Michael A. Sartori, Ph.D.
June 2009, What Is a U.S. Patent, and How Do I Obtain One?
Michael A. Sartori, Ph.D.
October 3, 2008, In re Comiskey Aftermath: Its Ruling Applied by the PTO Board
Michael A. Sartori, Ph.D.
2008, Software, E-Commerce, Internet, and Business Patents Drafting Patents for Litigation and Licensing, BNA Books
Michael A. Sartori, Ph.D.
December 1, 1999, Patenting E-Commerce Internet and Business Inventions
Michael A. Sartori, Ph.D.
November 21, 1999, So You Want To Be On The Internet®
Walter R. Calvert, Joshua J. Kaufman, Brian J. O'Connor, Andrew D. Price, Michael A. Sartori, Ph.D., Janet F. Satterthwaite, Melissa Landau Steinman, Damon W.D. Wright
Related Topic Area(s): Copyrights and Trademarks
Sept.-Oct. 1997, A Proposal for the Registration of Domain Names
Michael A. Sartori, Ph.D.
The Trademark Reporter
May 1997, An Economic Incentives Analysis of the Jury's Role in Patent Litigation
Michael A. Sartori, Ph.D.
Journal of the Patent and Trademark Office Society
Summer 1996, Tax Ramifications of the Recent Changes in the Patent Laws
Michael A. Sartori, Ph.D.
The Tax Lawyer
Events/Speaking Engagements
Dr. Sartori has been a lecturer at the Catholic University of America, where he taught a graduate course on advanced acoustics measurements.
His speaking engagements include:
"Statutory Subject Matter - Comiskey, Nuijten, and now In re Bilski," presented at the Seventh Annual Symposium on Hot Topics in Patent Law, George Mason University, School of Law, July 21, 2008.
"'Tightening Up' Continuation Practice," presented at the Corporate Patent Congress 2007, New York City, NY, January 22-23, 2007.
Past Events
November 17, 2011, "Protecting Your Idea: Trademarks, Copyrights and Patents" at the Toy & Game Inventor Conference
Michael A. Sartori, Ph.D.
February 13, 2011 - February 16, 2011, American International Toy Fair
Michael A. Sartori, Ph.D., Steven J. Schwarz, Meaghan Hemmings Kent