Mike Trombetta

Mike Trombetta is an associate in Quinn Emanuel’s San Francisco office, where he advises and represents technology companies in high-stakes intellectual property disputes. His practice focuses on patent litigation involving a wide range of technologies, including standards-based wireless technologies, artificial intelligence, semiconductors, networking systems, consumer electronics, and other advanced electrical engineering technologies.

Mike has represented clients in courts throughout the country, as well as before the International Trade Commission, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, and Patent Trial and Appeal Board. He has been an integral member of multiple trial teams in complex patent disputes, working closely with engineers, inventors, technical experts, and business stakeholders to develop case strategy, manage discovery, prepare witnesses, and present highly technical issues in a manner that is accessible and persuasive to judges and juries. In 2020, he was a member of a Quinn Emanuel trial team that secured a complete defense verdict on all asserted patents following a jury trial in the Eastern District of Texas. In 2023, he helped secure judgment as a matter of law of non-infringement on all asserted patents following a jury trial in the District of Delaware.

Prior to joining Quinn Emanuel, Mike served as a law clerk to the Honorable Robert W. Schroeder III of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas. He received his J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School, where he served as a Comments Editor for the Michigan Journal of Law Reform, and earned a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Connecticut.

Mike's technical background allows him to work effectively with engineers, inventors, and business stakeholders on complex technology matters. Before law school, he published a peer-reviewed article on phase-change memory devices and presented his research at the Materials Research Society Spring Meeting.

Mike is also committed to pro bono service. In 2020, he received an award from the San Diego Volunteer Lawyer Program in recognition of his dedication to representing underserved clients in guardianship and Social Security disability matters.