David advises clients on intellectual property matters, including litigation and audits, and technology licensing, distribution and transfer. He is a registered patent attorney with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
Some of the world’s most innovative technology companies, including Amazon, Snowflake, Tencent, and Yuga Labs, turn to David for guidance on protecting their intellectual property through copyrights, patents, trade secrets, mask works and trademarks. He also advises clients on avoiding infringing the rights of others and has served as counsel in a number of precedent-setting software copyright infringement cases, including Apple v. Microsoft, Lotus Development v. Borland International and A&M Records v. Napster.
David is “the most experienced and helpful IP lawyer I have ever worked with.”
Chambers Global, Client Quote
2021 Edition
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David has been recognized more than 200 times as one of the top practitioners in various fields of intellectual property law and strategy by leading publications and ranking organizations, including:
2008 – 2024
Ranked in Intellectual Property: Trademark, Copyright & Trade Secrets - USA
2002 – 2024
Recognizes David as a leading lawyer for Intellectual Property: Trademark, Copyright & Trade Secrets in California and Nationwide, as well as for Technology - Nationwide and in the highest tier for Technology - California
2016 – 2024
The Legal 500 rankings of top patent licensing attorneys since 2016, top copyright attorneys since 2020 and named key lawyer for media, technology and telecoms: technology transactions since 2022
2011 – 2024
Consistently ranked sinced 2011 by IAM Patent 1000 as one of the world’s leading patent and IP strategy attorneys, with the publication describing him as “remarkably good at thinking through the most challenging IP issues” and “an outstanding draftsman of complex agreements”