J. DAVID SMITH is a registered patent attorney with about eleven years experience in the chemical and biotechnical arts. He is a member of the California State Bar, Colorado Bar and the District of Columbia Bar as well as the American Intellectual Property Law Association and the Federal Circuit Bar. He received his J.D. from the University of Denver College of Law in 1993. Further, he successfully completed the pre-clinical basic science curriculum at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in 1989 and performed research in the field of genetics at the time. He also has a B.S. degree in Chemistry from Millsaps College.

David has worked with many start-up companies as well as established companies providing strategic counseling, patent portfolio management and prosecution as well as rendering opinions regarding freedom to operate, patent infringement and validity over a wide range of technologies including pharmaceuticals, genetics, recombinant DNA, immunology, gene therapy, microarrays, physical chemistry, bacteriology, and laboratory devices. He has significant experience with opposition proceedings before the European and Japanese Patent Offices and with patent Interference and Reexamination proceedings before the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Additionally, he has assisted with several patent infringement litigations involving biotechnology and pharmaceuticals.

He began his career working for Lyon & Lyon in San Diego, California and then worked for Howrey & Simon in Menlo Park, California, Townsend & Townsend & Crew in San Francisco, California and Morrison & Foerster in Palo Alto, California.