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Dan is Senior Vice President and General Counsel and brings significant licensing and litigation experience to TPL. Dan has counseled international and domestic clients on patent and trademark portfolio management and prosecution strategies. Dan has also drafted opinions of counsel on issues relating to infringement, validity, and enforceability.
Prior to joining TPL, Dan was an attorney in the Washington, D.C. offices of Howrey & Simon and Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, and a law clerk in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio. Dan has first chair trial experience in both federal district court and the International Trade Commission and has argued multiple Markman hearings for his clients. Dan's litigated cases were in a wide area of technical disciplines including LEDs, flash memory, CD-ROM controllers, PDAs, flight management systems, laser printers, bowling shoes, cache-MMU systems, internet postage, VCRs, water dispensers, DRAMs, pharmaceutical products, wireless LANs, semiconductor lasers, ink cartridges, CCFL inverters, and computer networks.
Dan has negotiated and drafted dozens of licensing, settlement, and patent purchase agreements - including multiple patent purchase transactions involving 8-figure U.S. dollar amounts. Some of the license agreements were simple one-way licensing arrangements. Others involved complicated cross-licenses with restricted fields of use and concurrently executed purchase agreements and memoranda of understanding.
Dan is admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, and the U.S. District Courts for the Northern, Central, and Southern Districts of California - and is a member of the bar in the State of California and District of Columbia.
From 2001-2004, Dan was a regular author of articles summarizing reported ITC decisions in the 337 Reporter, the journal for the ITC Trial Lawyers Association.
Asia Law & Practice’s 2008 Leading Lawyers Survey named Dan as one of Asia’s leading business lawyers in recognition of his work in the field of intellectual property. The Survey is one of the largest annual surveys in the legal profession and its purported aim is “to identify the region’s most highly acclaimed legal experts in several key practice areas.” Asia Law & Practice is a unit of Euromoney Publications (London).
Dan holds a J.D. from the University of Cincinnati College of Law, where he was a member of the University of Cincinnati Law Review. Dan did his undergraduate work at the State University of New York at Binghamton, where he received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and was a recipient of the Thomas J. Watson Memorial Scholarship.