David Grossman
​Patent Attorney, Engineer and Entrepreneur
​Protecting and Monetizing New Technologies.​
EDUCATION
​Juris Doctor, magna cum laude, American University Washington College of Law
  • Mussey Prize (for highest GPA during in the part-time division)
  • Order of the Coif (legal honor society)
  • The American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy, and the Law (Managing Editor)
  • Nathan Burkan Memorial Competition (First place, awarded by The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) for a paper on Copyright Law)​
Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University
CAREER HIGHLIGHTS
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PatentServices.com
1999 – Present
  • Represent clients in all areas of intellectual property law including patents, licensing, transactions, copyrights, and trademarks.
  • Negotiate and draft intellectual property agreements and licenses.
  • Serve as an officer, board member, and/or advisor for several start-up companies including: Ofinno Technologies LLC, Out of Galaxy Inc., Cinea Inc., First Guard Technologies, Inc., and True Honey Teas LLC.
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American University Washington College of Law
2015 – Present
Adjunct Professor of Law
  • Supervise student attorneys representing clients at the Glushko-Samuelson Intellectual Property Law Clinic. 
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George Mason University
2006 – Present
Adjunct Professor of Law
  • Teach a clinical patent drafting course.
  • Lecture on intellectual property law in the engineering and business schools.
2000 – 2012
Assistant Director, Office of Technology Transfer
  • Worked with researchers to evaluate, protect, and license university innovations.
  • Reviewed intellectual property clauses in research grants and contracts.
  • Lectured on intellectual property in engineering and MBA classes.
  • Represented University at public policy forums.
 
Digital Video Express LP (DIVX), a Division of Circuit City Stores, Inc.
1998 – 1999 (DIXV closed in 1999)
2000 – 2011 (Continued representation until final sale of patent portfolio to Google)
  • Managed the identification, patenting, licensing, and sale of the DIVX digital movie content protection patent portfolio.
Orbital Sciences Corp. 
1992 – 1998
Principal Software and Avionics Engineer
  • Software and avionics development lead for the NASA X-34 rocket plane, the Pegasus air launched rocket, and the Taurus ground launched rocket.
  • Developed spacecraft flight software for the Advanced Photovoltaics and Electronics Experiment (APEX) spacecraft.
Neo Davrich Corp.
July 1990 - November 1992
Founder and CEO
  • Built and sold a company that developed and marketed high tech electric guitars and violins.
  • Developed new musical instrument technologies including carbon composite necks, inaudible miniaturized neon tube power supplies, formed musical instrument bodies, piezo-electric transducer electronics, and performance control systems. 
  • Obtained the largest state grant offered at the time from the Pennsylvania State Ben Franklin Partnership program. 
Abetics Corp.
January 1984 - January 1991
Founder and CEO
  • Built and sold an engineering consulting company.
  • Developed: a bio-telemetry system for the Army Human Engineering Lab; a Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) system for the Elizabeth River Tunnel; a mini-van power door control system; an industrial knitting machine controller; an airline ground station controller; a wireless printer link; traffic control telemetry systems for a dozen cities; and an aircraft capture net.
PROFESSIONAL AND VOLUNTEER 
  • National Association of Patent Practitioners (NAPP), Past President and current board member
  • Association of University Technology Managers (AUTM)
  • Past Research Editor for Tomorrow's Technology Transfer: The Journal of the Association of University Technology Managers
  • Past Committee Chair of the Scholar Interaction Committee and Assistant VP of Metrics
  • Admitted to practice law in the District of Columbia and before the United States Patent and Trademark Office. 
PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS
  • Patent Application Preparation, National Association of Patent Practitioners Annual Meetings (2013-2015).
  • Technology Transfer Practitioners and Scholars: What Can We Learn from Each Other? at Association of Technology Managers Annual Meetings (2011 and 2013).
  • How to Convert your Research to a Patent, National Council of Entrepreneurial Tech Transfer (2011).
  • Basic Claim and Specification Drafting, Nuts and Bolts Class, National Association of Patent Practitioners Annual Meetings (2006-2012).
  • Non-Traditional Departments as a Resource in Technology Transfer, Association of Technology Managers Annual Meeting (2010).
  • What a Technology Transfer Professional Needs to Know about Patent Claims, Association of Technology Managers Annual Meeting (2009).
  • Business and Law Schools as Your Technology Transfer Office Workhorse, Association of Technology Managers Annual Meeting (2008).
  • Screening the Screeners 45 IDEA 361 (2005).  Discusses the problem of movie piracy and proposes a technical/legal solution involving the use of a temporally threaded watermark in combination with legal action under 17 U.S.C. 1202 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
PATENTS
  • U.S. Patent Appl. No. 15/911,132, Signal Cable Coupler.
  • U.S. Patent Appl. No. 15/829,931, Motion Sensor.
  • U.S. Patent No. 9,854,227, Depth Sensor.
  • U.S. Patent Appl. No. 14/988,759, Infuser.
  • U.S. Patent Appl. No. 14/979,600, Signal Cable Lanyard (Allowed).
  • U.S. Patent No. 8,358,215, Attention assistance and monitoring.
  • U.S. Patent No. 8,230,227, Method for Generating a Temporally Threaded CMI Watermark.
  • U.S. Patent No. 7.844,822, Temporally Threaded CMI Watermark.
  • U.S. Patent No. 7,668,503, Secure Remote Repeater.
  • U.S. Patent No. 7,484,100, Temporally Threaded CMI Watermark.
  • U.S. Patent No. 7,346,185, Optical content modulation for visual copyright protection.
  • U.S. Patent No. 7,218,754, Visual Copyright Protection.
  • U.S. Patent No. 7,076,763, Live Component System.
  • U.S. Patent No. 6,950,532, Visual Copyright Protection.
  • U.S. Patent No. 6,923,367, Safety Mailbox.
  • U.S. Patent Nos.: 5,684,470; 5,389,920; 5,239,779; 5,189,839, 5,216,838; and 5,140,316, directed to various Control Apparatus for Powered Vehicle Door Systems.