Michael Cantor

Chair at Connecticut Innovations

Michael Cantor is a co-managing partner of Cantor Colburn LLP, a leading national firm specializing in intellectual property law. He is a member of the Connecticut Bar Association, the Connecticut Patent Law Association, the American Bar Association, the American Intellectual Property Law Association, the Intellectual Property Owners Association, and the International Trademark Association. He is registered to practice before the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office. He also teaches patent law and procedure as an adjunct professor in patent law at the University of Connecticut School of Law.

Within five years after he joined the law firm Fishman & Dionne, Mr. Cantor was named a partner, and the firm evolved into Fishman, Dionne & Cantor. At the time, the firm had approximately 10 patent attorneys. Today, Cantor Colburn LLP is a full-service intellectual property firm with robust patent, trademark, copyright, and litigation practices. The firm has more than 100 attorneys and patent professionals in offices in Hartford, Washington DC, Atlanta, Houston, and Detroit, and ranks among the top 10 largest patent firms in the United States. Cantor Colburn’s clients include Fortune 100 companies, high-tech startups, universities, and midsized companies in the United States, Japan, Korea, Europe, Israel, and the Americas. Mr. Cantor has represented businesses from a broad range of industries, including technology, entertainment, and consumer products, and he is a frequent speaker and author on intellectual property issues.

Mr. Cantor graduated from the University of Connecticut with a B.S. with honors in chemical engineering/materials engineering in 1980. He received his J.D. from the University of Connecticut School of Law in 1983.

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