Michael is a Director of the firm and a Principal of our associated Australian firm, Spruson & Ferguson. Michael is based permanently in Singapore where he is Head of the Electrical & Mechanical group.

Michael has considerable technical expertise in the fields of semiconductor technology, photonics, electronics, telecommunications, computer systems, business processes and systems, and applied physics. He is an experienced patent attorney specialising in drafting and prosecuting patent applications internationally, including in South East Asia, USA, Europe, Australasia and China. Michael has been acting on behalf of many corporate and research institution clients in the creation and management of international patent portfolios. Michael also has considerable experience in patent litigation actions in the Singapore High Court, and in patent revocation practice before the Intellectual Property Office of Singapore (IPOS).

Michael earned a Bachelor and Masters of Science studying at the Technische Universität München, before going on to be awarded a PhD for his study on semiconductor devices at the University of New South Wales, Sydney. He was also awarded a Masters in Industrial Property from the University of Technology, Sydney.

Michael is a member of the Association of Singapore Patent Agents (ASPA) and currently serves as Executive Committee of ASPA. He is also a member of the Federation Internationale des Conseils en Propriete Industrielle, and of the Verein der deutschen Patentanwälte und Patentassessoren (German association of patent professionals), and a Fellow of the Institute of Patent and Trade Mark Attorneys Australia. Michael was the founding member of both the German-Australian Junior Chamber of Industry and Commerce and the Singaporean-German Chamber of industry and commerce.

Michael is currently a member of the Singapore Patent Agent Qualifying Examination Committee. Members are involved in the setting and marking of the qualifying examination papers.