Michael G. Sullivan

Mr. Sullivan is a Partner at Nevrivy Patent Law Group. His practice focuses on counseling clients on all aspects of patent law, including patent preparation and prosecution, reissues, reexaminations and litigation.

Mr. Sullivan began his career in patent law as a law clerk at an IP law firm in Washington, D.C and was later an associate, Of Counsel and partner at the same firm. He has also been patent counsel in the U.S. patent group of Akzo Nobel Pharma, a Dutch pharmaceutical company which comprised Organon, Organon Teknika, and Intervet.

Mr. Sullivan's practice throughout his career of more than fifteen years has been focused on pharmaceutical and biotechnology patent law, and has included patent preparation and prosecution, litigation, counseling, opinion writing, interferences, licensing, and due diligence investigations. While at a previous IP law firm, Mr. Sullivan was involved in a number of Hatch-Waxman litigations representing both brand name and generic drug companies. He also has written many opinion letters relating to infringement and validity, primarily in the areas of pharmaceuticals and biotechnology. While at Akzo Nobel, Mr. Sullivan counseled scientists and the European patent group of the company, and prepared and prosecuted patents relating to pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, immunodiagnostics, and veterinary products.

Prior to law school, Mr. Sullivan was a biologist at the National Institutes of Health, NICHHD, where he worked for Dr. Heiner Westphal in the Laboratory of Mammalian Genes and Development using transgenic mice as research models.

Mr. Sullivan is the sole author of Sullivan's IP Law Outline & Analysis, which is a comprehensive outline of intellectual property (patent) law-related opinions by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and the U.S. Supreme Court.

Recent writings or news items involving Mr. Sullivan include:

IP Man III, Legal Bisnow (New York) (profiling Sullivan's IP Law Outline)

IP Lawyers Don't Need Desks, Legal Bisnow (Washington, D.C.) (profiling Sullivan's IP Law Outline)

Anatomy of a Patent Case - Book Review, Journal of Commercial Biotechnology (2011) 17, 207-208. doi: 10.1057/jcb.2011.5

Analysis of Daiichi Sankyo Company, Ltd. v. Matrix Laboratories, Ltd. (Structural Obviousness), IP Law Outline

Analysis of Microsoft Corp. v. i4i Ltd.(Supreme Court cert. granted), IP Law Outline