Robert Mihail is a partner at Effectus Law. He represents employees and employers in workplace discrimination and retaliation matters and maintains an intellectual property practice built over more than two decades across patent prosecution and litigation, trademarks, copyrights, technology transfer, and portfolio monetization. He brings particular depth at the intersection of intellectual property and federal procurement law.

Employment Law

Robert represents employees and employers in discrimination and retaliation claims, including matters involving race, sex, age, disability, national origin, and religion under Title VII and related statutes. His work includes federal-sector EEO complaints and related litigation.

Intellectual Property

Robert is a registered patent attorney admitted to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. He has drafted and negotiated R&D agreements and monetized patent portfolios spanning electronics, automotive, defense, oil and gas, renewable energy, food manufacturing, and life sciences. He has advised a major R&D organization on indirect infringement exposure, declaratory judgments, and reexamination strategy, and has guided multinational clients through cross-border transactions, anti-counterfeiting programs, and copyright chain-of-title matters.

His government contracts IP work has centered on the FAR/DFARS technical data framework, unlimited, government purpose, and limited rights regimes, and on sustainment-phase disputes involving technical data access demands and depot-level maintenance conflicts.

Robert has litigated before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in matters involving complex technologies, including implantable medical devices and pharmaceuticals. His practice covers the full IP lifecycle: utility and provisional patent filing and prosecution (including software and AI-related inventions), PTAB proceedings, freedom-to-operate and patentability analysis, trademark filing and prosecution, TTAB proceedings, copyright registration and DMCA enforcement, and IP licensing with particular focus on FAR/DFARS data rights and Bayh-Dole compliance.

Prior to joining Effectus, Robert served as an attorney with the U.S. Army, where his practice included intellectual property and federal acquisition matters. He currently serves as a Judge Advocate (Major) in the U.S. Army Reserve.