Michael S. Borella, Ph. D. - Lawyer in Chicago, IL

Michael S. Borella is a partner at McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP and chairs the company's Software & Business Methods Practice Group. Dr. Borella provides legal and technical advice to support effectiveness, infringement, patentability analysis and litigation issues. His areas of expertise include networking, Internet telephony, wireless communication technology, communications, financial transactions, cloud computing, routing, TCP/IP, artificial intelligence and machine learning, computer graphics and imaging, voice and facial recognition, robotics, and mobile applications.

Dr. Borella has drafted or been involved in prosecution of hundreds of patents in the United States and other jurisdictions. He has experience in numerous stages of patent litigation, including invalidity analysis, discovery, exercise practice, and claim building. It also includes client counseling on patentability, validity, infringement analysis and procurement of all types of intellectual property rights.

Dr. Borella has written extensively on the patent eligibility of computer-implemented inventions and has been a featured presenter for several seminars on the topic as well.

Prior to joining MBHB, he was on the management team for Fastmobile, UTStarcom and 3com, responsible for several large software engineering projects, and managed more than 75 software engineers. He is an adjunct professor at Northwestern University and lectured on patent law at the Kent College of Law, Chicago. Dr. Borella is the inventor of more than 70 U.S. patent applications and has authored a similar number of academic and technical papers related to networking, telecommunications, and computer science.