Michael Morin is a partner in the Intellectual Property Litigation Practice. He is a first chair litigator with extensive trial and appellate experience relating to intellectual property matters.

Mr. Morin’s practice focuses primarily on patent litigation at both the trial and appellate court levels. Mr. Morin’s cases have involved a comprehensive scope of technical subjects including:

Medical Devices
Software
Pharmaceuticals
Biologics
Consumer Products
Computer Games
Sporting Goods

Mr. Morin is an experienced first-chair trial lawyer in both federal district court litigations and arbitrations. He is also an experienced appellate advocate, having argued at the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit on numerous occasions.

Mr. Morin has substantial experience in all aspects of patent litigation, across a wide range of technologies. He has gained particular experience in pharmaceutical and biologics litigation in recent years, having led multiple litigations involving several of the world’s best-selling drugs. He also has significant experience litigating software patents, having defended cases involving some of the best-selling business software in the world. Likewise, he has litigated multiple cases involving top of class, household name consumer products.

In addition, Mr. Morin advises clients regarding their intellectual property portfolios and strategies, assists with licensing issues, and renders opinions advising clients of their legal positions and responsibilities. He also devotes considerable time to pro bono activities, representing disabled veterans in civil matters and indigent defendants in criminal cases. Mr. Morin currently serves on the firm’s Recruiting Committee.

Mr. Morin is a faculty member of the Trial Advocacy College at the University of Virginia, where he teaches trial skills to lawyers from around the United States. He is also heavily involved in the Sedona Conference, where he is leading a working group on parallel district court and PTO proceedings. In addition, he frequently lectures on litigation matters at conferences hosted by the Federal Circuit Bench and Bar, the American Bar Association, the American Intellectual Property Law Association, the American Law Institute-American Bar Association, the Patent Resource Group and the Practising Law Institute.

Prior to joining Latham, Mr. Morin was a partner in the patent litigation practice at a global intellectual property law firm.