Member of the Board of Trustees Since July 2026
Micheal L. 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, FinTech, 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 2024 Fellow with the Leadership Council on Legal Diversity; 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 President-Elect and a trustee on the Foundation for Advancement of Diversity in IP Law.
Micheal is also actively involved in his community and sits on the board of three non-profits. He is a member of Leadership Georgia Class of 2025, co-chairs the board of Access Georgia Foundation, and serves on the boards of Page Turners Make Great Learners in Atlanta and the Georgia Wildlife Federation. He is also an advisor for Spruill Center for the Arts; The Mom Project; and TiE Access Atlanta.
Micheal received his BS cum laude from Morgan State University and his JD from Fordham University School of Law.
Member of the Board of Trustees Since July 2026
Micheal L. 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, FinTech, 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 2024 Fellow with the Leadership Council on Legal Diversity; 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 President-Elect and a trustee on the Foundation for Advancement of Diversity in IP Law.
Micheal is also actively involved in his community and sits on the board of three non-profits. He is a member of Leadership Georgia Class of 2025, co-chairs the board of Access Georgia Foundation, and serves on the boards of Page Turners Make Great Learners in Atlanta and the Georgia Wildlife Federation. He is also an advisor for Spruill Center for the Arts; The Mom Project; and TiE Access Atlanta.
Micheal received his BS cum laude from Morgan State University and his JD from Fordham University School of Law.