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Erick J. Michel, Ph.D.
Associate
Email. emichel@mcandrews-ip.com
Tel. (312) 775-8217
Education
J.D., Chicago-Kent College of Law, Illinois Institute of Technology
Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, Northwestern University
M.S. in Electrical Engineering, Iowa State University
B.S. in Electrical Engineering, Iowa State University
Bar Admissions
Admitted to practice in Illinois. Admitted to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Professional Experience
Erick joined the Firm in 2006. His practice includes obtaining patent protection for clients by assessing the patentability of inventions, drafting, and prosecuting patent applications before the United States Patent and Trademark Office. He has drafted approximately two hundred patent applications in matters encompassing Electronics, Integrated Circuits and Packaging, Digital Video, Broadband, Wireless Networks, Optical and Fiber Communication, CMOS photonics, Bluetooth, RF, GPS, three-phase power monitoring, and other areas of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He has also been involved in due diligence matters and litigation support for various electrical and electronics technologies.
He received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Northwestern University in 1998. At Northwestern, his dissertation work focused on compound semiconductor materials and devices for infrared sensing applications. His MS thesis work resulted in a patent covering the fabrication of photonic bandgap structures. Prior to graduate school, he worked for two years as a design and test engineer at a small ASIC design/test company and an appliance manufacturer.
After receiving the Ph.D., Erick joined Lucent Technologies, Microelectronics Group where he worked with InP-based lasers and detectors for telecommunication applications. At Lucent and its subsequent spinoff, Agere Systems, as well as the new owner of the optoelectronics division, Triquint Semiconductor, he held positions as a Member of Technical Staff, Technical Manager and Distinguished Member of Technical Staff. His work focused on the metal-organic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) growth of arsenide-phosphide based materials for buried heterostructure laser devices.
In 2005, he joined Northwestern University as a Research Associate Professor in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department. At NU, he assisted graduate students in compound semiconductor device research, with projects including Type II superlattice structures for infrared imaging applications, quantum cascade lasers, and quantum dot infrared photodetectors. At the same time, he served as Vice President of a small startup associated with his Ph.D. advisor. There he was responsible for writing proposals in response to government funding solicitations as well as conducting research in infrared imaging technology, and technical reporting of existing funded research work.
Erick has greater than twenty publications in scientific journals and conference proceedings, as well as six conference presentations on compound semiconductor device growth and fabrication, infrared sensing, and laser sources for fiber optic communications. Also, he is a member of Eta Kappa Nu, Sigma Xi, and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
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