Michael Pavento focuses his practice on intellectual property law. He advises established companies and start-up ventures in a wide range of intellectual property matters, including the procurement and exploitation of intellectual property rights and the management of intellectual assets.

Mr. Pavento regularly evaluates patent rights and renders opinions with respect to invalidity, infringement and freedom-to-operate issues and design-around options. He has developed offensive and defensive litigation strategies with respect to patent infringement, patent invalidity and related issues. Mr. Pavento also regularly prepares and prosecutes domestic and international patent applications and manages domestic and international patent portfolios. He also handles patent reexamination and reissue proceedings. Mr. Pavento's areas of core technical competence include: telecom, computers and networking systems, software, e-commerce, electronic transaction processing, on-line banking, mechanical devices, bioinformatics and business methods.

Mr. Pavento also regularly advises clients on transactional matters, negotiating and drafting complex intellectual property licensing agreements and other technology transfer and development agreements, as well as M&A agreements. He has performed intellectual property due diligence studies and competitive analyses in support of corporate mergers, acquisitions, IPOs and other transactions.

Mr. Pavento has extensive experience preparing and prosecuting applications for state and federal trademark registrations, rendering trademark clearance opinions and advising clients as to trademark usage and enforcement strategy. He regularly counsels clients regarding protection and enforcement of copyrights and preparing applications for federal copyright registrations. He is recognized in 2010 and 2011 as a Georgia "Rising Star" in the area of Intellectual Property by SuperLawyers Magazine.