Binns, Micheal
Meta | Associate General Counsel, Patents, Licensing, and Open Source
Micheal Binns is Head of Patents & Trade Secrets and a Director and Associate General Counsel on the Patent, Licensing and Open Source team at Meta, formerly Facebook. As a registered patent attorney, Mike’s helped protect global copyrights and trademarks in addition to patent rights for a wide range of industries. At present, he advises on global IP portfolio strategy and risk mitigation related the future of AI, social networking, AR/VR/MR, and the metaverse. Micheal has and continues to protect the knowledge, systems, and inventions that are business-critical drivers of revenue.
Micheal chairs Meta’s Black@Legal affinity group, which focuses on ensuring an equitable experience for diverse employees in the legal department. Within the legal profession, he is a founder and board member of ADAPT.legal, a DEI collective; a former board member on the National Council on Patent Practicum and founder of the Patent Pipeline Program; and the vice president and a trustee on the Foundation for Advancement of Diversity in IP Law.