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David G. Grossman, Esq.

Admitted to practice law in the District of Columbia and before the United States Patent and Trademark Office
Principal, PatentServices.com
President, National Association of Patent Practitioners (NAPP)
Adjunct Professor of Law, George Mason University School of Law
Works with research institutions, companies, and individuals:
- Management of intellectual property
- Prosecution of patents
- Development, licensing, and commercialization of new technologies
Inventor for 17 US patents and several patents pending
Participated several times in the complete "start-up" lifecycle from intial concept to exit
Engineering experience spans from designing toy rockets for Fisher-Price Toys to leading the software and avionics design of the NASA/Orbital X-34 rocket plane
Actively involved in the Association of University Technology Managers (AUTM)

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND

Juris Doctor, magna cum laude, American University Washington College of Law, 2004
- Mussey Prize (for achieving the highest GPA in the part-time division during the final year)
- Order of the Coif (legal honor society)
- ASCAP Nathan Burkan Memorial Competition (first place)
- The American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy, and the Law (Managing Editor)
- The Glushko Samuelson Intellectual Property Law Clinic (full year clinical training)

Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, 1981
- Keystone Honor Society, 1977
- The first Electrical Engineering Cooperative Education student at Penn State

PATENTS/PUBLICATIONS

U.S. Patent No. 8,504,988, Live Component Authoring System (issued Aug. 6, 2013)
U.S. Patent No. 8,358,215, Attention Assistance and Monitoring (issued Jan. 22, 2013)
U.S. Patent No. 8,230,227, Method for Generating a Temporally Threaded CMI Watermark (issued July 24, 2012)
U.S. Patent No. 7,844,822, Temporally Threaded CMI Watermark (issued Nov. 30, 2010)
U.S. Patent No. 7,668,503, Secure Remote Repeater (issued Feb. 23, 2010)
U.S. Patent No. 7,484,100, Temporally Threaded CMI Watermark (issued Jan. 27, 2009)
U.S. Patent No. 7,346,185, Optical Content Modulation for Visual Copyright Protection (issued Mar. 18, 2008)
U.S. Patent No. 7,218,754, Visual Copyright Protection (issued May, 14, 2007)
U.S. Patent No. 7,076,763, Live Component System (issued July 11, 2006)
U.S. Patent No. 6,950,532, Visual Copyright Protection (issued Sept. 27, 2005)
U.S. Patent No. 6,923,367, Safety Mailbox (issued Aug. 2, 2005)
Patents directed towards Control Apparatus for Powered Vehicle Door Systems:
- U.S. Patent No. 5,684,470 (issued Nov. 4, 1997)
- U.S. Patent No. 5,389,920 (issued Feb. 14, 1995)
- U.S. Patent No. 5,239,779 (issued Aug 31, 1993)
- U.S. Patent No. 5,189,839 (issued June 8, 1993)
- U.S. Patent No. 5,216,838 (issued June 8, 1993)
- U.S. Patent No. 5,140,316 (issued Aug. 18, 1992)
U.S. Patent Appl. No. 61/749,978, Image Alignment of Multiple Display Devices (Filed Jan. 8, 2013)
U.S Patent App. No. 13/441,844, Data Privacy Mechanism (filed April 07, 2012)
U.S Patent App. No. 13/093,407, Attention Assistance and Monitoring (filed April 25, 2011)

David G. Grossman, Screening the Screeners 45 IDEA 361 (2005). This article discusses the problem of movie piracy and proposes a technical/legal solution involving the use of a newly proposed temporally threaded watermark in combination with legal action under 17 U.S.C. 1202 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act

cAREER HIGHLIGHTS

Patent Practice
- Prosecuting patents in a private patent practice since 1999
- Clients include corporate and individual inventors

Assistant Director, Office of Technology Transfer
- Evaluate, protect, and license cutting-edge innovations developed by George Mason University faculty, staff, and students
- Prosecute non-life science technologies
- Assist Director in planning, developing strategic directions and day-to-day management of the office
- Directly supervise patent agent, paralegal, interns and work-study personnel
- Provide presentations, lectures and counseling on technology transfer and intellectual property issues throughout the University
- Develop and maintain productive relationships with George Mason faculty and administration

Adjunct Professor of Law
- Teach a clinical patent drafting course at the George Mason University School of Law
- Students draft real patent applications for technologies developed by George Mason University faculty, staff, and students

Visual Copyright Protection
- Cinea was founded to provide anti-piracy solutions to the worldwide motion picture and television industries
- Along with one of Cinea's founders, conceived (and patented) a visual copyright protection technology that prevents camcorders from recording projected movies
- Cinea developed this technology further in collaboration with Sarnoff Corporation under a multi-million dollar grant from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
- Prosecuted and managed the Cinea patent portfolio since its inception
- Assisted Cinea with patent-related due diligence when it was acquired by Dolby Labs in 2003

Corporate Patent Agent
- Prosecuted and managed the patent portfolio for Digital Video Express LP (DIVX), a subsidiary of Circuit City Stores, Inc.
- IP included Digital Versatile Disc (DVD) system enhancements, novel business model implementations, electronic security, and electronic cinema
- Worked with inventors, patent searchers, other patent practioners, and corporate management to ensure that time constraints, continuity of patent related issues, and cost containment were managed in an efficient and effective manner
- Additional responsibilities included regularly reviewing IP discovery issues with internal staff, as well as monitoring and assessing applicable developments in technology relating to DIVX’s IP, included managing technical and IP issues related to future business
- Authored a short paper entitled Remembering DIVX, An Intellectual Property Case Study examining the history of the intellectual property related to the DIVX venture