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Mike Benoit, Ph.D.
Patent Agent
913.995.3711
Headshot of Mike Benoit

Mike Benoit, Ph.D.

Patent Agent
913.995.3711

EDUCATION

  • Stanford University, Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, 2006-2010
  • University of Colorado, Ph.D., Aerospace Engineering Sciences, 2005
  • University of Colorado, M.S., Aerospace Engineering Sciences, 2002
  • University of New Hampshire, B.S., Microbiology, 1995

ADMISSIONS

  • U.S. Patent & Trademark Office

Mike Benoit is a registered patent agent with a Ph.D. in aerospace engineering sciences and a strong technical background in engineering and biotechnology. Mike’s patent experience includes drafting and prosecuting patent applications and assisting with invalidity and infringement analyses and inter-parties review (IPR) proceedings, often related to electro-mechanical devices, control systems, robotics, composite materials, and applied optics.

Mike previously worked as a technical advisor at an Am Law 200 firm, and as a product development engineer at LightDeck Diagnostics developing disposable fluidic devices for point-of-care diagnostics applications, at Codexis developing biocatalysts for generating biofuels and reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and at Ball Aerospace developing laser communications technology.

As a postdoc at Stanford University, he developed MRI contrast-agents and studied bacterial antibiotic resistance mechanisms using high-throughput microfluidics devices. As a graduate student at the University of Colorado, he helped design, build, test, and integrate three science payloads that flew onboard the International Space Station.