Leadership

Michael T. Moore

Pure Storage, Inc.

Mr. Moore is the Associate General Counsel, Products and Patents at Pure Storage in Mountain View. He has responsibility for product counseling, patents and intellectual property strategy, open-source software, product transactional support, trade compliance, and other matters. Mr. Moore is a seasoned attorney with more than a decade of software and hardware counseling and patent and IP experience, which follows his technical experience in digital logic design and software engineering.

Pure Storage has been recognized twice by The Recorder for In House Legal Department of the Year in 2016 and 2017 for IP Strategy, and also recognized for Litigation (2016) and for Data Security (2017), which fall into Mr. Moore’s area of responsibility. Before joining Pure Storage, Mr. Moore was the Vice President, Intellectual Property and Deputy General Counsel, of Rambus. He has also worked in-house at Symantec, and he started his attorney career as an associate at the law firm of Morgan, Lewis and Bockius involved in patent prosecution and trade secret litigation. Prior to this Mr. Moore spent almost a decade in the semiconductor industry as an engineer and patent agent.

Mr. Moore holds a JD and MBA from Santa Clara University, and BSEE (B.Eng) from the University of Limerick, Ireland. He speaks at PLI, ACC, and other events and has published in Law360, ACC Docket, Corporate Counsel, Intellectual Asset Management, and other legal journals. He holds 10 US issued patents from his engineering work, and numerous technology publications in electronics trade journals.