Recognized in Best Lawyers since 2020 
With a practice encompassing litigation, licensing, mediation, and intellectual property portfolio evaluation and clearance, Dan helps clients protect their innovations and market share both in the United States and internationally. He brings decades of experience across a remarkably broad range of technologies, having handled matters involving industrial, medical, surgical, and pharmaceutical technologies, automotive and trucking devices, wireless phone technology, computerized systems, website content, industrial chemicals, and packaging technologies. Dan regularly advises clients on patent opinions, strategies for lawfully designing around existing patents, license drafting and negotiation, merger and acquisition due diligence involving intellectual property assets, and trademark searching and clearance opinions.
As a seasoned trial lawyer, Dan has served as lead trial counsel for both plaintiffs and defendants in bench trials and jury trials alike. Clients facing complex, high stakes disputes involving millions of dollars rely on him to build and manage their litigation teams and to develop strategies that protect their most valuable assets. His appellate experience is equally distinguished, having served as lead counsel and presented oral argument before the Indiana Supreme Court and the United States Courts of Appeals for the Federal, Seventh, and Ninth Circuits. His depth of expertise in patent and trade secret law has also led to his engagement as an expert witness in intellectual property litigation.
A registered mediator specializing in the resolution of intellectual property disputes, Dan draws on his extensive litigation experience to guide parties through complex matters involving patent, copyright, trade secret, and trademark ownership, infringement, and licensing. His perspective is shaped by years of firsthand experience on both sides of the courtroom, and this combination of litigation, transactional, and dispute resolution experience allows him to approach every matter with a comprehensive understanding of the legal, technical, and commercial dimensions at stake.
