Michael Krieger

Michael Krieger is a Los Angeles attorney with Willenken Wilson Loh & Stris. He has practiced high-technology business and intellectual property law for more than 20 years, focusing on strategic counseling, litigation strategy, and preventive methods to both secure and exploit clients' key IP assets. This includes both patent, trademark, and other litigation and associated transactions for development, acquisition, licensing, and services. His clients have ranged from start-ups to industry leaders, the United Nations, and international Web-based initiatives. He also has been an expert in technology litigation.

With degrees in mathematics (B.S., Caltech; Ph.D., UCLA) and law (UCLA), Krieger was on the MIT Mathematics and UCLA Computer Science faculties as well as a Fulbright Scholar prior to practicing law. Combining knowledge of both law and new technology, he was involved early on with emerging issues such as public key encryption (1978 tutorial for the Computer Law Association), domain name/trademark conflicts, open source software, and Internet governance (for example, personal adviser to Internet pioneer Jon Postel as he oversaw privatization of Internet administration).

Krieger serves on several boards supporting new venture development, including the Caltech/MIT Enterprise Forum. In 1997 he developed and continues to teach a graduate seminar on entrepreneurial business, IP, and litigation issues for the Computer Science Department in UCLA's engineering school. He has served on the Executive Committee of the Intellectual Property Section of the California Bar, was Editor-in-Chief of its journal New Matter, and currently chairs its Computer Law Committee.