David Schumann Email & Phone Number

San Francisco

• Marton Ribera Schumann & Chang LLP is a Northern California-based litigation and counseling practice representing businesses and entrepreneurs in commercial and intellectual property matters in federal and state courts.
• Patent and other intellectual property litigation and counseling principally relating to wireless including UMTS and LTE, semiconductors, networking, telecommunications, software, cryptography, payment systems.
• Significant experience with post-grant review proceedings such as Covered Business Method and Inter Partes Reviews.
• Intellectual Property portfolio analysis, contract analysis, due diligence and strategic patent prosecution. This included providing recommendations and proactive legal advice concerning clients’ product roadmap versus.
• Provided analysis and advice to investing partners regarding target company IP.
• Negotiated contract terms to secure key IP rights.

• I have broad pre-trial and trial experience as well as significant pre-litigation counseling experience. I represented Asyst Technologies in trial in the patent lawsuit Asyst Technologies v. Empak, et al. The jury.
• Experienced in all aspects of the day-to-day case management and operations of high-stakes intellectual property litigation and licensing disputes including patent, software copyright/open source, and trade secret.
• Participated in multiple patent infringement trials. This included frequent public speaking via in-court arguments and witness examinations.
• Managed teams of attorneys, paralegals and outside consultants such as experts, jury consultants, graphics and discovery vendors dealing with all aspects of trial preparation and legal advice.
• Member of Associate Performance Review, Associate Bonus, and Innovation Committees.
• Responsible for budget development, tracking, and reporting for most clients.

Experienced in all aspects of the day-to-day operations of high-stakes intellectual property litigation including patent, copyright, and trade secret matters.Participated in two patent infringement trials both resulting in favorable verdicts.At trial conducted direct examination of fact witness; argued evidentiary motions; argued JMOL; assisted with all.

Drafted patent applications dealing with Internet search, network and GPS technologies.

• P-Q Controls, Inc. designs and manufactures smart sensors and input device, and electronic modules for use on industrial equipment. These products generally involve real-time embedded controllers and bus interfaces.
• Responsible for all design and development activities as well as compliance with various regulations. Performed activities ranging from developing product architecture and managing electrical and mechanical engineering.
• Demonstrated leadership abilities through managing engineering, manufacturing and sales teams, managed all electrical engineering projects, and performed hardware/software design.

Developed testing software, performed yield enhancement and failure analysis, and had overall cost responsibility for the CS3310 stereo volume control and CS4332 stereo codec integrated circuits.

Performed hardware design and development of a fiber optic gyroscope and related inertial navigation system hardware and production tools. These products are certified to fly on all commercial aircraft made in the United States and currently flies on the Boeing 777, among others.

J.D.

Activities and Societies: Magna Cum Laude, University of Miami Law Review Articles and Comments Editor, Order of the Coif

Bs, Electrical Engineering

Activities and Societies: IEEE

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