Michael Gottselig, Ph.D.

Michael Gottselig is a Patent Agent with the firm and counsels his clients on all aspects of patent practice, focusing on patent preparation and prosecution in the areas of clean energy, green technology, chemistry and pharmaceuticals.

Since joining the firm in 2005, Michael has prepared and prosecuted patent applications in the U.S. and internationally in a number of areas, including clean energy and green technology (e.g., biofuel photobioreactors, bioplastics, fuel cells, solar and wind energy generation), holographic imaging and sensor technology, medical diagnostic devices, biotechnology, and pharmaceuticals.  He has performed due diligence, infringement, validity, patentability and freedom-to-operate analyses.  Michael has provided strategic global patent portfolio counseling for clients ranging from small startup companies, academic institutions, to large, multi-national companies.  He has participated in European Opposition proceedings at the European Patent Office in Munich, and has experience conducting Examiner Interviews at the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

Michael’s scientific research experience spans multiple fields including chemical synthesis, spectroscopy, computational chemistry, polymers and liquid crystals. As a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Harvard’s Jefferson Laboratory, Michael magnetically trapped and spectroscopically investigated cold NH radicals. He completed his Ph.D. at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in the area of electroweak quantum chemistry, investigating the spectroscopy, quantum dynamics and parity violation in axially chiral molecules.  His diploma research focused on the electro- and solvatochromic behavior of fluorophores in liquid crystals.

Michael has been the recipient of national and international awards and honors including the Amat-Mills Award, a Feodor-Lynen Fellowship of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, the ETH Medal of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology for outstanding dissertation work, the Swiss Chemical Society’s Award for Excellence in Oral Presentation, an Erasmus Fellowship of the European Union, and a Fellowship of the German National Merit Foundation.  His research has been presented at international scientific meetings and has been published in seven scientific publications.

Bar Admissions

• U.S. Patent and Trademark Office