Michael H. Fleck

Michael Fleck welcomes a challenge and takes pride in relentlessly pursuing his clients’ best interests. A critical thinker and creative strategist, Mike’s calm and level-headedness arise from his dogged preparation and enthusiasm for tackling issues head on.

Leveraging his engineering background, Mike concentrates on intellectual property litigation and other cases involving complex technical or scientific subject matter. Mike has litigated cases involving medical devices, aircraft safety systems, telecommunications, elevator systems, cybersecurity, and more. Mike also has unique experience both pursuing and defending inequitable conduct claims in patent cases.

In addition to litigating cases around the country, Mike maintains a sophisticated patent counseling practice in which he helps corporate clients develop internal patent policies and procedures to develop litigation-ready patent portfolios and manage risks and costs. Mike also helps his clients navigate complex intellectual property ownership issues and has experience drafting and negotiating intellectual property provisions in various types of agreements.

Prior to being a litigator, Mike was a patent prosecutor. He managed global patent portfolios, drafted almost 100 utility patent applications, and successfully obtained scores of patents for his clients. Mike’s experience spanned a wide range of technologies, including aircrafts, valves, process control systems, oil exploration and extraction technologies, consumer products, hand tools, stock trading software, telecommunications equipment, sensors, and tracking devices.

Mike is also dedicated to representing clients who have been wrongfully convicted. He has experience in post-conviction proceedings in the circuit and appellate courts. He recently prevailed on appeal in a case involving a request for DNA testing of key physical evidence collected from the crime scene.

Mike has been a member of RSHC’s Associate Recruiting, Retention, and Talent Development Committee since 2023.

Mike is the Deputy of the firm’s Intellectual Property Practice Team.