Michigan Intellectual Property Lawyers

Intellectual Property Law

15300 Centennial Dr, Northville, MI 48168

Alex Salmu is a Northville, Michigan, attorney listed by the State Bar of Michigan as senior corporate counsel for intellectual property and data protection at AISIN World Corp. of America. His bar profile records admission in Michigan on November 9, 2011, and identifies him as an active member in good standing. It also lists his membership in the bar’s Intellectual Property Law Section. His Justia biography describes intellectual property work spanning automotive suppliers, individual inventors, startups and small businesses across the United States. The assignments described there include evaluating patentability and trademarks, prosecuting patent and trademark applications, and filing for copyright protection. Portfolio maintenance and the geographic expansion of patent and trademark protection also appear in that account. Contract work forms another part of the biography. It describes his review, negotiation and support of agreements concerning technology transfers, patent licensing, joint ownership and joint ventures, as well as assignments, nondisclosure agreements and distribution agreements. His work with engineers and inventors includes developing invention disclosures; the same account describes involvement with managers, directors and other executives in intellectual property portfolio development. Before his automotive-supplier work, Salmu conducted searches involving mechanical and medical-device technologies and prepared patentability opinions associated with international applications under the Patent Cooperation Treaty, according to Justia. That biography identifies the International Search Authority involved as a contractor to the United States Patent and Trademark Office. It also records an earlier career as a mechanical engineer.

Intellectual Property Law

400 W Maple Rd #350, Birmingham, MI 48009, USA

Anthony P. Cho is an intellectual property attorney and partner at CGO Law in Birmingham, Michigan. His listed practice areas cover intellectual property litigation, post-grant proceedings and patent prosecution. He earned a B.A. in physics at Dartmouth College in 1989 and a J.D. at the University of Michigan Law School in 1992. His firm profile lists admissions to the Michigan bar, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, the Eastern District of Michigan and the Sixth and Federal Circuits. The Arthrex cases form part of Cho’s appellate record. According to CGO Law, he argued before the Federal Circuit that the appointment of Patent Trial and Appeal Board judges was unconstitutional and led the appellate team in the related Supreme Court litigation. His speaking engagements have also addressed appellate issues: he spoke at an ABA seminar concerning appeals from USPTO decisions in 2020 and at Chicago-Kent College of Law’s Supreme Court IP Review in 2021. Cho’s technical specialties are listed as medical devices, aerospace and automotive technology. His representative matters include defending an orthopedic device manufacturer against an effort to prohibit knee-implant sales and defending an automotive supplier in litigation concerning an SUV top. In another matter, his profile reports that he obtained a judgment in an inter partes review proceeding that disposed of a patent infringement lawsuit. The firm also describes a trade-secret case resolved through a requirement that the defendant license the client’s technology and publicly admit wrongdoing.

Intellectual Property Law

3331 West Big Beaver Road, Suite 102, Troy, MI 48084

Drawing from his 20+ years of experience as in-house counsel, including as Chief IP Counsel for Lear Corporation, Bill offers sophisticated business judgment that is rare in private practice. His in-house experience includes service for the US Army, BASF, SC Johnson, and Detroit Diesel. As evidence of his breadth and depth, Bill has structured acquisitions of technology companies, set up engineering entities in China for developing next generation batteries, cross-licensed IP, and litigated patent and trade secret issues. He knows how to focus on the clients' specific business objectives, regardless of technology or industry. And he delivers results.

Intellectual Property Law

7111 Dixie Hwy #210, Village of Clarkston, MI 48346, USA

Jeffrey P. Thennisch is an intellectual property attorney in Clarkston, Michigan, and the founder of Thennisch Law Group. Music publishing rights are a focus of his work, including efforts to recover ownership for creators and their families under U.S. copyright termination provisions and Canadian copyright reversion provisions. His clients include songwriters, artists and heirs. At AmericanaFest in Nashville, Thennisch addressed that recovery work in a presentation titled “A Second Bite at the Copyright Apple: Copyright Termination Rights for Authors and Heirs.” He also participated in “Unsung, Unshaken, and Uncompensated: The Plight of African American Musicians,” a forum at the Congressional Black Caucus’s 42nd Annual Legislative Conference in Washington, D.C. His published work and speaking engagements concern copyright law, music publishing and intellectual property. Music is not the full extent of his intellectual property background. Thennisch has worked on patent and trademark portfolios as well as copyrights, with experience in obtaining rights, licensing them, protecting them and litigating disputes. That experience covers both domestic and international portfolios. His music clients have included Grammy Award winners and members of the Songwriters Hall of Fame and the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Thennisch graduated from GMI Engineering & Management Institute in Flint, Michigan, the institution now known as Kettering University. He earned his law degree cum laude at Northern Illinois University College of Law in DeKalb, Illinois.