Cochran, David B.

Current Employment Position(s)

Partner

Lawyer Overview

Dave Cochran is an electrical engineer and patent attorney in Jones Day's Intellectual Property Practice. His experience includes international patent prosecution, patent opinions, prelitigation counseling, patent reexamination, due diligence of intellectual property assets, and patent litigation. He has filed and prosecuted hundreds of patent applications in the United States and throughout Europe, South America, and Asia. Dave has provided dozens of patent opinions to clients, including noninfringement, invalidity, patentability, and freedom-to-operate opinions. In addition to opinion work, Dave works closely with Firm clients to develop strategies for avoiding competitor patents and preparing for litigation. He provides IP due diligence services for licensing, venture capital investments, and M&A matters. Dave also participates in all aspects of patent litigation from pre-suit investigation through trial and appeal.

Dave has represented clients including ABB, Eastman Kodak, Gennum, IBM, Research In Motion, and SAS Institute.

Prior to joining Jones Day, Dave worked as an electrical engineer for IBM and NASA, where he developed technical experience in the areas of semiconductor processing and fabrication, circuit design and simulation, semiconductor physics, laser electronics, software, embedded computer systems, control systems, power supply systems, and high-resolution imaging devices. Dave holds three U.S. patents and one European patent related to his work for IBM.

Areas of Practice

• Intellectual Property
• Patent Prosecution

Representative Cases

• American Greetings establishes patent portfolio for consumer products
• Com Dev International maintains patent portfolio for satellite technologies
• Compuserve defends against patent infringement charges related to online sales
• Encyclopedia Britannica pursues patent litigation against USPTO related to multimedia search and retrieval software
• Gennum develops patent portfolio for digital hearing aids, high-definition television video processing circuits and digital data communication circuits
• Gennum prevails after long dispute over infringement claims concerning two patents related to video synchronization separators
• iBiquity Digital acquires worldwide IP license for satellite radio broadcasting application
• Image Holdings Corp. acquires InFocus Corp. , (2009)
• LTV Steel defends against patent infringement claims involving annealing process equipment
• Marconi develops patent portfolio for telecommunications technologies
• Mitel establishes patent portfolio for telecommunications circuits and systems
• RIM builds global patent portfolio for wireless device and wireless network technologies
• RIM resolves IP infringement dispute involving mobile device technology
• RIM wins summary judgment of noninfringement involving BlackBerry®'s power generating circuit
• Soverain Software undergoes patent reexams for electronic commerce transaction technology
• The SAS Institute builds patent portfolio for database, data mining, and data warehousing software applications
• Vizio responds to claims of patent infringement by LG Electronics in ITC 337 proceeding
• VIZIO settles patent infringement dispute with Sony over television technology , (2009)

West Practice Categories

Copyrights, Intellectual Property Law, International Intellectual Property, Patents, Technology Licensing, Trade Dress, Trade Secrets, Trademarks

Bar Admissions

• Ohio

Education

• Cleveland State University
• U of Illinois - Urbana (Main)

Published Works

• Toward a Post-Grant Patent Opposition Proceeding in the United States, 2006

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Cleveland, OH 44114-1190

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