David Conrad Email & Phone Number

David Conrad is a Principal attorney in the Dallas office of Fish & Richardson. He provides legal services to clients in matters relating to business litigation, patent litigation, and trade secret litigation.In state and federal courts in Texas and across the country, he represents clients as lead counsel in commercial and intellectual property disputes. He has appeared on behalf of clients in over 300 federal and state district court cases, and has successfully argued appeals in numerous forums, including several times before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, USPTO Patent & Trademark Board of Appeals (PTAB), and Texas state courts of appeals.The high-tech matters he works on involve a wide range of technologies, including consumer products, telecommunications, e-commerce and web site systems, computer network architecture, computer software, encryption, and semiconductors. He represents both companies accused of infringement and those seeking to enforce their intellectual property rights.In addition to patent litigation, his practice involves navigating complicated business and civil disputes. He has represented clients on a variety of matters including insurance coverage disputes, breach of contract, partnership disputes, and trade secret theft.His practice is focused on complex intellectual property issues and business litigation in the areas of:• Patent litigation• Patent protection• Business torts• Breaches of contract• Trademark litigation• Theft of intellectual propertyPrior to law school, he worked at National Instruments in Austin, Texas, as a software engineer, where he developed system-level software and designed embedded computer systems for industrial applications. During his engineering studies at the University of Texas, he worked for the Applied Research Laboratories where developed controller software and designed embedded computers for high-resolution underwater sonar systems for the U.S. Navy. Mr. Conrad is fluent in numerous computer software languages including Go, Python, JavaScript, C, C++, SQL, Ruby, and Java.He has tried criminal cases in the Dallas County District Attorney’s Office as part of its Lawyer on Loan program, where he picked the jury or first chaired more than ten jury trials, trying each of those cases to verdict.He is also active in the community, handling pro bono litigation in partnership with Kids in Need of Defense (KIND), Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), and working on pro bono matters for Texas Appleseed, the Texas Defenders Service, and Immigration Equality.

Listed skills include Patent Litigation, Intellectual Property, Trade Secrets, Patents, and 16 others.