Mr. Michael Davis
Founder & President, Davis Law Group, P.C.
Michael Davis is Founder & President of Davis Law Group, P.C. He serves as General Counsel for various technology clients. During his 18th year legal career, he has represented numerous clients, and several have obtained large investments of venture capital. The Austin Business Journal named Mr. Davis as one of Austin’s 3 best attorneys in the field of "Technology/Intellectual Property" law (Best of Business Law 2004). He is a past President of the Austin Intellectual Property Law Association. Before attending law school, he received his bachelor’s degree from MIT’s school of engineering and worked in the fields of electronic instrumentation, automated control systems, and computer programming.
From 2002-2006, Mr. Davis served as General Counsel of StarCore, a joint venture (co-owned by Freescale Semiconductor, Infineon Technologies and Agere Systems) that developed and licensed digital signal processor technology. Before Mr. Davis founded Davis Law Group in 2005, he was a Partner at the large multinational law firm of Haynes & Boone, where he practiced for 7 years (1998-2005). Previously, he was a lead attorney for IBM at the Somerset PowerPC Microprocessor Design Center, which was a key strategic alliance between IBM, Motorola and Apple.
In 2004, Gov. Rick Perry appointed Mr. Davis to the Texas Product Development & Small Business Incubator Board, which governs up to $45 million in economic development incentives for products and businesses in the fields of semiconductors, nanotechnology, biotechnology and biomedicine. Currently, Mr. Davis is Vice Chair of the Board.
Mr. Davis has served as mentor and judge at several venture capital events and competitions. He was founding Chair of the MIT Enterprise Forum of Austin.
Mr. Davis is a registered patent attorney. He has personally drafted or supervised several hundred original United States patent applications. In patent matters, his experience covers business methods, software, Internet, video/audio standards (e.g., MPEG, JPEG, Dolby AC-3), digital & analog circuitry, microprocessor design & semiconductor manufacturing. For 4 years (2001-2005), he wrote the weekly patent column for Austin Business Journal.