| EXPERIENCE: Michael Murphy is a partner in the intellectual property and technology transactions practices at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati. Mike's practice focuses on strategic counseling for technology companies regarding intellectual property, technology licensing and partnering arrangements, and patent prosecution and counseling. Representative clients include public and privately held companies in software applications and services, networking and telecommunications, storage systems, EDA software, and semiconductor design and manufacturing. Prior to law school, Mike was a research and development engineer in the Information Networks Division at Hewlett-Packard in Cupertino, California. During his tenure at Hewlett-Packard, he worked on UNIX-based networking products, including the HP OpenView network management platform.
EDUCATION: - J.D., Stanford Law School, 1993
Order of the Coif; Recipient, John M. Olin Award for Law and Economics - B.S., Computer Systems Engineering, Stanford University, 1989
Recipient, Stanford President's Award for Academic Excellence; Member, Tau Beta Pi (National Engineering Honor Society)
ASSOCIATIONS AND MEMBERSHIPS: - Member, Computer Law Association
- Member, Licensing Executives Society
- Member, Santa Clara County Bar Association
HONORS: - Named in the 2009 edition of Intellectual Asset Management 250 – The World's Leading IP Strategists
- Selected for inclusion in the 2007 edition of The Legal 500 US
 Michael J. Murphy
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ADMISSIONS: - State Bar of California
- U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
- U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
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