Current Employment Position(s)

Member, since 2008

Lawyer Overview

DAVID A. CHERRY is a Registered Patent Attorney with extensive experience in patent law. Mr. Cherry focuses his practice on patent procurement and other complex matters before the United States and foreign patent offices, including reexaminations, reissues, oppositions, public protests, due diligence studies, technology in-licensing, IPO's, stock and bond offerings, acquisitions and divestitures. Mr. Cherry is also proficient in drafting opinions of counsel, including infringement, validity and patentability opinions, conducting freedom to operate and state of the art searches and analyses, global patent strategies, licensing and confidentiality, material transfer and other agreement work, litigation support and general client counseling on patent and related matters.  Mr. Cherry has represented clients in the United States and worldwide, including individual inventors, start-up, mid-size and Fortune 100 companies, as well as universities and non-profit organizations.  He has argued cases before the United States Patent and Trademark Office and The Hague.

Mr. Cherry began his legal career as a Scientific Advisor for a Philadelphia IP boutique firm while he was attending Temple University School of Law. During law school, Mr. Cherry was an Associate Editor of the Temple Environmental Law and Technology Journal.  He later joined Philadelphia’s oldest intellectual property law firm as an Associate Attorney where he was responsible for drafting and prosecuting foreign and domestic patent applications, and conducting patentability and infringement assessments.  Mr. Cherry then moved to Philadelphia’s largest intellectual property law firm, first as an Associate Attorney and then as a Partner.  Throughout his career, Mr. Cherry has worked in a wide range of technical fields including pharmaceuticals, diagnostic contrast agents, organic, inorganic and polymer chemistry, chemical process technologies, lipid chemistry, protein and peptide chemistry, chemical additives, electrochemistry, natural products chemistry, food sciences, surface sciences, metallurgical sciences, catalysts, fibers, textiles, lithography, cosmetics, medical devices, mechanical inventions and business methods, including risk management programs for prescribing and distributing pharmaceutical products.

Prior to beginning his legal career, Mr. Cherry worked as a synthetic organic chemist in medicinal and process research chemistry for McNeil Pharmaceuticals.  While at McNeil, Mr. Cherry invented a process and authored a paper relating to the synthesis of antihypertensive drug candidates.  Mr. Cherry holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Chemistry and a Master of Science Degree in Organic Chemistry from Drexel University.

Areas of Practice

• Patent Procurement

West Practice Categories

Patents

Bar Admissions

• Pennsylvania
• New Jersey
• U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

Professional Associations and Memberships

• American Bar Association
• Pennsylvania Bar Association
• American Intellectual Property Law Association
• Philadelphia Intellectual Property Law Association
• American Chemical Society

Past Employment Positions

• Woodcock Washburn, LLP, Partner, 2000 - 2008
• Woodcock Washburn, LLP, Associate, 1994 - 1999
• Synnestvedt & Lechner, LLP, Associate, 1991 - 1994
• Panitch, Schwarze, Jacobs & Nadel, P.C., Scientific Advisor, 1989 - 1991
• McNeil Pharmaceuticals, Process Research Chemist, 1985 - 1988
• McNeil Pharmaceuticals, Medicinal Chemist, 1983 - 1985

Education

• Temple University School of Law, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1991
  J.D.
• Drexel University, 1986
  M.S.
• Drexel University, 1983
  B.S.
  Honors: Dean’s List

Published Works

• Cherry et al., “Process for Producing 1-(5-Substituted-2-Ethynylphenyl)-2-Propanones", U.S. Patent No. 4,798,893, 1989
• “Ligand Assisted Nucleophilic Additions. Control of Site and Face Attack of Nucleophiles on 4-Oxidoenones", Journal of the American Chemical Society, 110, 3702-3704, 1988
• Associate Editor, Temple Environmental Law and Technology Journal, 1991

Address

4720 Montgomery Lane
Suite 400
Bethesda, MD 20814

Phones

(240) 274-1017

Faxes

(301) 560-8677

Emails

dcherry@feldmangale.com

Websites

http://www.FeldmanGale.com