Michael Meehan

Dr. Meehan hold both a JD and a PhD, and has works at the intersection of law, high tech, and business. He concentrates his legal practice on strategic patent portfolio growth, the acquisitions and licensing of patents and technology, open source, and intellectual property due diligence, including M&A.

He works as Counsel for Hickman Palermo Becker Bingham LLP. Dr. Meehan previously worked at Uber as the head of the IP group, and at Google on a broad range of issues for the Geo business unit. Before becoming an attorney, he worked his way up from junior programmer to CTO at various software startups, as well as working as a researcher at the Stanford Department of Surgery, UNC Computer Science Department, and other institutions.

Dr. Meehan has extensive intellectual property and engineering professional experience in the fields of graphics and virtual reality, medical devices, cryptography, machine learning, e-business, and numerous other areas. In addition to revealit, Dr. Meehan serves on advisory boards of numerous technology and medical device companies. Dr. Meehan served as a clerk for the Honorable Judge Bryson on the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and received his Ph.D. in computer science concentrating on virtual reality under Dr. Frederik P. Brooks, Jr.