Michelle Manning, J.D., Ph.D.
Shareholder
Email: mmanning@bellmanning.com
Phone: (608) 661-3592
Michelle has over 22 years of experience as a patent attorney. Michelle's practice focuses on U.S. and international patent prosecution, patent-related counseling, strategy development, due diligence analysis, and legal opinion preparation. Michelle has a technical emphasis in chemistry and the physical sciences and her clients include major U.S. research universities, small and mid-sized privately held technology companies, and government laboratories. In addition, Michelle can count a Nobel prize-winning chemist among her inventors.
Michelle was named to the list of Wisconsin Super Lawyers in 2006 and 2010 in the field of intellectual property law by Law and Politics Media, Inc. Prior to forming Bell & Manning, LLC, Michelle was an attorney with Whyte Hirschboeck Dudek S.C. for two years and, prior to that, Michelle was a Senior Counsel with Foley & Lardner, LLP, where she worked for seven years.
Education
- University of Wisconsin Law School, J.D., 2001
- Magna Cum Laude
- Order of the Coif
- University of Wisconsin-Madison, Physical Chemistry, Ph.D., 1998
- University of Colorado at Boulder, Chemistry, B.A., 1992
As a doctoral research associate in physical chemistry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Michelle studied the surface properties and chemistry of liquid metals, liquid metal alloys, and molten salts. As a doctoral student, Michelle completed coursework in materials chemistry, solid state physics, chemical engineering, thermodynamics and quantum mechanics.
Admissions
Registered Patent Attorney, U.S. Patent & Trademark Office
State Bar of Wisconsin
Legal Experience
Michelle's technical focus as a patent attorney is in the physical sciences, including chemistry, chemical engineering, and materials science. She has prepared and prosecuted hundreds of patent applications in these technical areas, including applications related to inks and 3D printing, clean technologies and devices, semiconductors and semiconductor processing, thin film electronics, organic and inorganic composites, nanomaterials, metal alloys, bio-fuel production, microfluidics and polymer coatings. As examples, Michelle wrote and prosecuted the patents listed below:
Materials
- U.S. Pat. No. 9,444,030, Nanoporous Piezoelectric Polymer Films for Mechanical Energy Harvesting.
- U.S. Pat. No. 9,437,628, Biodegradable Microwave Electronic Devices.
- U.S. Pat. No. 9,425,351, Hybrid Heterostructure Light Emitting Devices.
- U.S. Pat. No. 9,327,979, Methods for Removing Polymer Coatings from Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes.
- U.S. Pat. No. 9,324,804, Graphene-on-Semiconductor Substrates for Analog Electronics.
- U.S. Pat. No. 9,290,495, Tetracationic Cyclophanes and Their Use in the Sequestration of Polyaromatic Hydrocarbons.
- U.S. Pat. No. 9,243,364, Methods of Pretreating Lignocellulosic Biomass with Reduced Formation of Fermentation Inhibitors
- U.S. Pat. No. 9,227,272, Nanocomposite Welding Wires.
- U.S. Pat. No. 9,227,186, Synthesis of Layered Metal Sulfide Ion-Exhangers.
- U.S. Pat. No. 8,999,623, Degradable Neutral Layers for Block Copolymer Lithography Applications.
- U.S. Pat. No. 8,974,578, Porous Polymer Networks and Ion-Exchange Media and Metal-Polymer Composites Made Therefrom.
- U.S. Pat. No. 8,865,057, Apparatus and Methods for Industrial-Scale Production of Metal Matrix Nanocomposites.
- U.S. Pat. No. 7,812,353, Front and Backside Processed Thin Film Electronic Devices.
- U.S. Pat. No. 8,795,845, Low-Temperature Synthesis of Integrated Coatings for Corrosion Resistance.
- U.S. Pat. No. 8,710,213, Methods for Integrating the Production of Cellulose Nanofibrils with the Production of Cellulose Nanocrystals.
- U.S. Pat. No. 8,519,347, Methods and Compositions for the Detection of X-Ray and Gamma-Ray Radiation.
- U.S. Pat. No. 7,804,928, Systems And Methods For The Cyclotron Production Of Iodine.
- U.S. Pat. No. 7,005,191, Oxidation Resistant Coatings for High Temperature Transition Metals and Transition Metal Alloys
Publications and Presentations as an Attorney
Protecting Your Patentable Inventions: Avoiding Harmful Public Disclosures and Creating Helpful Invention Disclosures, Presentation at PIKE Technologies, Madison, WI (December 2013).
Special Considerations for Handling Intellectual Property in University-Industry Agreements, Presentation at the Intellectual Property Law Association of Chicago (IPLAC), Chicago, IL (February 2010).
Discover Nanotechnology and Why it Matters to You, Invited Presentation at the Association for Manufacturing Excellence (AME) Conference (October 2009).
Demystifying Nanotechnology , Oral Presentation at the Wisconsin Chapter of the Product Development & Management Association (PDMA), Madison, Wisconsin (May 2009).
International Patent Protection: Important Considerations and Trends in the Nanotechnology Industry, M. Manning and S.B. Maebius, Technical Proceedings of the 2007 NSTI Nanotechnology Conference and Trade Show, (2007).
International Patent Protection: Important Considerations and Trends in the Nanotechnology Industry, Oral Presentation at the 2007 NSTI Nanotechnology Conference and Trade Show, San Jose, California (May 2007).
Intellectual Property Rights and Government Contracts, Panel Presentation at the 34th Annual Symposium on Government Acquisition, Recent Developments in Government Contracting, Huntsville, AL (Moderator, November 2006).
Nanotech IP Battles Worth Fighting, Contributor, Lux Research Report (June 2006).
Nanotechnology Patents with Demonstrated Commercial Value: An Analysis of the Characteristics of Licensed Nanotechnology Patents from Publicly Announced Commercialization Deals, M. Manning and S. B. Maebius, Poster Presentation at the 2006 NSTI Nanotechnology Conference and Trade Show, Boston, Massachusetts (May 2006).
Technical Experience
From 1993 to 1998, Michelle was a doctoral research associate in physical chemistry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, studying the surface properties and chemistry of liquid metals and liquid metal alloys. Relevant technical expertise includes quadrupole time-of-flight mass spectrometry, auger spectroscopy and ultrahigh vacuum studies.
Publications and Presentations as a Scientist
Examination of Liquid Metal Surfaces through Angular and Energy Measurements of Inert Gas Collisions with Liquid Ga, In, and Bi, M. Manning, J. A. Morgan, D. J. Castro, and G. M. Nathanson, Journal of Chemical Physics, 119, 12593 (2003).
Atomic Beam Scattering Studies of Liquid Gallium, Indium, and Bismuth Surfaces, Ph.D. Thesis, University of Wisconsin (1998).
Argon Scattering off the Surface of Liquid Indium: Exit Angle and Energy Dependence, L. Tribe, M. Manning, J. Morgan, M. D. Stephens, E. Treptow, G. M. Nathanson, and J. L. Skinner, Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 102, 206 (1998).
Probing the Roughness and Stiffness of Liquid Metal Surfaces, Oral Presentation at the American Chemical Society Meeting, Las Vegas, NV (September 1997).
Professional Associations
Wisconsin Bar Association