Michael E. Ramón, Ph.D.

Michael E. Ramón is a senior patent agent in the Intellectual Property Practice Group in the Austin office of Haynes Boone. Dr. Ramón’s practice focuses on patent preparation and prosecution, with an emphasis on semiconductor processes and devices. He also has experience in a variety of other technical fields including financial technology, digital payment systems, mobile devices and mobile applications, software applications, business methods, encryption and authentication, telecommunications, microprocessor design, computer hardware, wireless networks, microelectromechanical systems, electric vehicles, medical devices, and optical systems.

Prior to joining the firm, Dr. Ramón completed his Ph.D. at the University of Texas at Austin, where his research focused on nanofabrication and metrology of graphene and III-V materials and devices. He also has six years of semiconductor industry experience at Freescale Semiconductor (formerly Motorola Semiconductor Products Sector), where he gained extensive experience with transistor and wafer-level reliability. Dr. Ramón has authored/co-authored 42 technical journal publications and conference presentations, is a co-inventor of eight U.S. patents, and has also refereed papers for various journals including Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology B, ACS Nano, IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, and Electron Device Letters.