David W. Potashnik is a Patent Attorney who earned his Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Notre Dame. He received his Juris Doctor degree, magna cum laude, with a Certificate in Intellectual Property from the University of Akron.Prior to embarking on his legal career, Dave worked as an electrical engineer in Tempe, Arizona with a division of Motorola Labs designing hardware and software platforms. He was also a research fellow at the University of Notre Dame, where his research was focused primarily in device physics, semiconductor fabrication, and microprocessor design.Specialties: high-tech electronics companies, ASIC design, memory design, communication systems, microprocessor design, network protocol analysis, computer and network security, software development, and device physics and fabrication techniques.