Michael J. F.

Michael J. Farnan is a patent litigator at Farnan LLP, based in Wilmington, Delaware. His practice focuses on intellectual property, complex commercial law, and commercial bankruptcy matters, often representing plaintiffs in patent, antitrust, securities, and trade secret cases in Delaware's federal and state courts. His experience encompasses technology-related patents, as exemplified by his role as local counsel in DISH Technologies L.L.C. et al. v. Cox Communications, Inc. et al., a case involving patents related to adaptive bitrate technology for streaming video.

Mr. Farnan consistently acts on the plaintiff side in patent litigation. Farnan LLP, founded by former U.S. District Court Judge Joseph J. Farnan, Jr., serves as Delaware counsel for out-of-state law firms and corporations in high-stakes litigation, contributing to significant outcomes such as findings of infringement and validity in Hatch-Waxman litigation and an $84.5 million jury verdict for patent infringement. He has been part of teams that have recovered billions of dollars for clients and has experience with jury and bench trials.

While his practice heavily involves federal district court litigation, information regarding his regular appearance in PTAB or IPR proceedings is not prominently featured in his available professional profiles.

Mr. Farnan is admitted to practice in Delaware and New Jersey, as well as before the United States District Courts for the Districts of Delaware and New Jersey, and the Federal Circuit. He earned his B.A. cum laude from Dickinson College in 2004 and his J.D. cum laude from the University of Toledo College of Law in 2008, where he served as a note and comment editor for the University of Toledo Law Review.