MoloLamken LLP

Michael Pattillo is an experienced appellate litigator. He has argued before the U.S. Supreme Court, federal courts of appeals, and a state supreme court. Mr. Pattillo’s practice also includes critical motions and issue analysis at the trial level.

Mr. Pattillo has extensive experience with appeals in patent cases before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. He has won cases setting precedent on major issues of patent law, including McRO, Inc. v. Namco Bandai Games America (patent-eligibility of software under 35 U.S.C. § 101) and Therasense, Inc. v. Becton, Dickinson & Co. (standard for inequitable conduct). He has successfully defended patent infringement verdicts worth hundreds of millions of dollars; won appeals of inter partes review decisions by the Patent Trial and Appeal Board; and obtained affirmance of exclusion orders issued by the International Trade Commission.

Mr. Pattillo also has experience in a wide variety of substantive areas beyond patent law, including the Federal Trade Commission Act, the False Claims Act, administrative law, securities fraud, the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, campaign finance, federal preemption, the dormant Commerce Clause, and mass torts.

Mr. Pattillo is a founding partner of MoloLamken. He was previously an associate with Williams & Connolly LLP and Baker Botts LLP. Before entering private practice, Mr. Pattillo served as a law clerk to Judge Stanley F. Birch of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit and to Justice Nathan L. Hecht of the Supreme Court of Texas.