Practice Areas:
Patents,
Trademarks, Copyrights, Trade Secrets, Technology Law, Business and Portfolio Analysis, Strategic Planning, Due Diligence,
Licensing, Opinions, and Litigation
Industry Experience:
GLA
Network Technologies/Brooks Fiber Properties - Senior
Vice President, Corporate Secretary, General Counsel and President of an engineering and
consulting firm including business and
technologies assessments and planning, investment due
diligences, software development and technical services
1997-2001
SBC/AT&T - Manager of Engineering, Technology Planning,
Capital Budgeting, R&D, New Product Development, and
Regulatory Planning 1978-1997
Education:
Juris
Doctor: Saint Louis University School of Law 1994, Cum
Laude and Order of the Woolsack
Master in Business Administration: Webster University
1990, with Honors/Distinguished Graduate
Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering:
University of Texas at Arlington, 1977, Eta Kappa Nu
Admitted to Practice:
Missouri
Illinois
Colorado
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
Activities:
Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis
Missouri Bar Association
Illinois
Bar Association
American
Bar Association
American
Intellectual Property Law Association
USA Hockey
Professional Profile:
David
joined the firm in 2007 after practicing in-house at
a technology company and at two other St. Louis area intellectual property law firms.
He has provided intellectual property services to a wide
variety of corporate and individual clients in matters
relating to U.S. and foreign patents, trademarks,
copyrights, trade secrets, licensing, due diligences, regulatory
proceedings, and enforcement of
intellectual property rights.
His practice has included preparing and prosecuting patents, registering
trademarks and copyrights, counseling clients, rendering
opinions, and preparing technology agreements. This has
included a wide range of technologies and subject matters
including computer software systems and processes,
telecommunications systems and methods, locomotives/trains, nuclear reactor
systems,
semiconductor devices, electrical and mechanical devices
and control
systems, sensing systems, manufacturing processes,
and medical devices
and systems.
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