Michael P. Shepherd is an Associate in the Silicon Valley office of Fish & Richardson. His practice emphasizes patent prosecution in the areas of software and computer science. Mr. Shepherd’s practice encompasses technologies including machine learning, image processing, information retrieval, virtual machines, cloud computing, networking, business methods, and web‑based services. Mr. Shepherd’s professional technical experience includes working as an embedded software engineer on laser and infrared imaging systems at Northrop Grumman Corp., as an embedded software engineer on radar and sonar systems at Lockheed Martin Corp., and as an intern in the computer architecture group at Intel Corp.