Michael A. Lechter, Esq., author of Protecting Your #1 Asset,
Creating Fortunes from Your Ideas, An Intellectual Property Handbookand
OPM,, and an Adjunct Professor at Arizona State University. When
asked what he does for a living, he typically replies, "I
build forts and fight pirates." He has specialized in intellectual
property law since the early 1970s.
He is a patent attorney who has been admitted to practice in a
number of states as well as to the Patent Bar. He has represented
clients ranging from breweries, and fast food companies, casinos,
and professional sports teams and to major software companies,
and semiconductor device and medical device manufacturers.
Michael
is also the author of The Intellectual Property Handbook, TechPress,
1994, coordinating editor of Successful Patents and Patenting
for Engineers and Scientists, IEEE Press, 1995, and contributing
author to Encyclopedia Of Electrical And Electronics Engineering,
Wiley, 1999, and Licensing Best Practices: The LESI Guide To Strategic
Issues and Contemporary Realities by John Wiley & Sons, Inc,
2002. He has lectured extensively throughout the world on intellectual
property law. Upon request of the House Judiciary Committee, he
has submitted testimony to the Congress of the United States,
and has participated in various United Nations and foreign government
proceedings on intellectual property law and technology transfer.
When not writing, speaking, or practicing law, Michael spends
his time studying the martial arts (he has black belts in Tae
Kwon Do and Hop Ki Do), and trying to keep up with his wife Sharon
and their three grown children.
