Michael Liu Su

Michael Liu Su
Counsel
michael.su@mcneilliplaw.com
O: 650.540.3304
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McNeill PLLC
1433 North Water Street
Suite 400
Milwaukee, WI 53202*

With an eye towards litigation, Michael prepares applications and prosecutes robust patents and provides critical insight

Michael Liu Su focuses his practice on patent prosecution and due diligence investigations. Since starting his career more than a decade ago, Michael has been involved in prosecution and diligence work, but has also accumulated extensive litigation experience.

The insight Michael gained through litigation helps him craft strategic and creative solutions to his clients’ complex legal and technical issues. It enables him to understand their long-term needs for a robust and enforceable patent portfolio, and it helps him deliver reliable and efficient advice. Michael has represented innovator companies in high-stakes litigation and arbitration. His experience includes developing pre-litigation strategy, drafting contentions, conducting fact and expert discovery, briefing summary judgment, and trying and appealing cases. Additionally, Michael has worked on multiple inter partes reviews and post-grant reviews, on both the patent owner’s and petitioner’s sides and spanning all stages, from petitions, patent owner responses, petitioner replies, depositions, oral hearings, and appeals. His technical experience spans a wide range of areas in the life sciences space, including antibodies, enzymes, diagnostic and detection methods, medical devices, and small molecule therapeutics.

Michael joins McNeill PLLC after having practiced for more than six years as an attorney at Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, LLP, and three years as a US patent agent at a patent firm in Taiwan. While at Berkeley Law, Michael externed at the Northern California District Court and served as a fellow at the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology. Before starting his legal practice, Michael focused on cancer research at the cellular level, specifically in the areas of cell cycles, cell migration, and cancer metastasis.

Admissions

 

California

Michigan

US Patent and Trademark Office 

US District Court, Northern District of California 

US Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit

 

*Not admitted in WI 

 

Education

University of California, Berkeley School of Law

JD, 2014

 

National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University

MS, Genome Sciences, 2008

 

National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University

BS, Life Science, 2007

 

Languages

Mandarin Chinese (Taiwan)

 

Select Speaking Engagements

Taiwanese American Association of Biotechnology (TAAB) Webinar, "Information Sharing, Patents, and Trade Secrets," December 16, 2023.