MICHAEL J. BUCHENHORNER
Michael J. Buchenhorner, a 1981 graduate of the University of Miami School of Law, has joined Rojas Law Firm LLP as Of Counsel. Mr. Buchenhorner concentrates his practice in counseling, infringement studies, preparation, and prosecution of patents in high technology areas, including computer hardware and software, telecommunications, electronics, and bioinformatics. He has prosecuted hundreds of patents, dealing in subject matters such as telecommunications, computer technology, medical devices, and many other high tech areas.
Prior to becoming Of Counsel to Rojas Law Firm LLP, Mr. Buchenhorner worked for various technology giants. During his tenure as Director of Intellectual Property at AltaVista, the well known Internet search engine gained the distinction of holding the most patents in search engine technology of any similar company. As an intellectual property licensing attorney for Lucent Technologies, Mr. Buchenhorner was part of the team enforcing Bell Labs' patent portfolio throughout the world. Prior to that, he served as a patent attorney for International Business Machines where he supported various computer software and hardware development groups in IBM's Boca Raton, Florida facility. He was part of the team enforcing IBM's personal computer patents throughout Latin America. As a patent attorney for Motorola, Mr. Buchenhorner served on the committee that established the Six-Sigma quality standard for Motorola patent applications and was consistently among the most prolific attorneys in the company in filing patent applications.
Other accolades include an invitation as one of thirty-nine attorneys to participate on an expert panel for a study conducted by the United States General Accounting Office, titled "Federal Action Needed to Help Small Business Address Foreign Patent Challenges.” As a United States International Trade Commission lawyer, Mr. Buchenhorner litigated several appeals before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. See for example, Texas Instruments v. U.S. International Trade Commission, 851 F.2d 342 (Fed. Cir. 1988); and, Texas Instruments v. U.S. International Trade Commission, 871 F.2d 1054 (Fed. Cir. 1989). These landmark decisions in the field of semiconductor memories broke new ground in the field of patent law.
Mr. Buchenhorner currently serves as Vice President of the University of Miami College of Engineering Alumni Association. He also serves on the Industry Advisory Board for the Florida International University School of Computing and Information Sciences. Recently, he acted as Vice Rapporteur in the 8th Americas Business Forum Workshop on Intellectual Property Rights of the draft treaty for the Free Trade Area of the Americas. He has written extensively and is a national speaker on strategies for developing and enforcing intellectual property portfolios in the global arena.
A native of Cuba, Mr. Buchenhorner is fluent in Spanish. He has also conducted intellectual property negotiations in Portuguese. Mr. Buchenhorner holds the highest rating (AV Preeminent) assigned by Martindale-Hubbell, a peer review rating conferred by fellow attorneys. He is admitted to practice before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida, and the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.