Overview

Dave practices in the area of intellectual property, including patent, trademark, copyright, and trade secret matters. As a registered patent attorney, Dave has extensive experience preparing and prosecuting patent applications in software, electrical, and mechanical fields for Fortune 100® companies, startups, and individual inventors. Further, Dave is routinely engaged in offensive and defensive forward patent initiatives as well as portfolio development strategies including patent acquisition and licensing. Although a majority of his practice focuses on patent matters, Dave also has substantial experience counseling clients regarding trademark and copyright acquisition and enforcement.

 

Experience

PATENTS

• Prepared and prosecuted hundreds of U.S. patent applications
• Engaged routinely for portfolio development/forward patent harvesting
• Counseled clients regarding patent valuation and acquisition

TRADEMARKS

• Counseled many clients regarding acquisition and enforcement of trademarks

GLOBAL IP PROTECTION

• Procured global patent and trademark rights with foreign counsel worldwide

IP LITIGATION

• Represented clients before the USPTO Board of Appeals
• Represented clients in trademark cancelation proceedings
• Negotiated coexistence agreements

Associations

 

• Intellectual Property Owners Association (IPO) – Software-Related Inventions Committee Member
• American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA)