David’s patent prosecution experience spans a wide range of technologies including computer hardware and software, memory systems, networking, display systems, computer security, payment technologies, machine learning (AI), biomedical devices, catheter-based devices, and analytical, laboratory devices, such as flow cytometry systems.  He also assists clients in obtaining protection for their trademarks. David has worked with clients ranging from very early-stage start-up companies to large, publicly traded companies to academic institutions to investors.

Prior to joining BF&F, David worked as an in-house counsel at a Silicon Valley technology company.  David was also an associate at Wilson Sonsini in San Francisco where he focused on legal issues confronted by early-stage technology start-ups, and an associate at Cleary Gottlieb in New York City where he focused on leveraged finance, high-yield offerings, capital markets and other general corporate matters for private equity sponsored clients.  Prior to law school, David worked for several years as a software and hardware engineer for both established and start-up computer technology companies in Silicon Valley. In pursuing patent prosecution, David leverages both his legal and engineering backgrounds when serving clients.

“My experiences working in several diverse practice areas in private practice, from start-up formation work to high-yield offerings, as well as working in house have all influenced my approach to clients, in particular helping me appreciate a larger context of client needs that has proven valuable with issue spotting and crafting creative solutions.”

David received a J.D., cum laude, from Georgetown University Law Center, where he worked at a landlord-tenant clinic representing tenants located in the Washington, D.C. area. He received an M.S.E. in Computer Engineering from the University of Texas, where he helped teach computer system and computer architecture courses at the freshman through graduate student levels and conducted research on high performance microprocessor systems. David also holds a B.S.E. in Computer Engineering, summa cum laude, from the University of Michigan, where he helped teach an introductory computer engineering course.