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Del Mar Heights, California 92130
United States
Daniel Yannuzzi is a partner and former co-chair of the Intellectual Property Practice Group. He advises clients in all areas of intellectual property law, including patent and other intellectual property litigation, strategic portfolio development, technology licensing, and transactional matters.
Areas of Practice
Mr. Yannuzzi has extensive experience advising high-technology companies and their stakeholders on complex, business-critical IP matters. Mr. Yannuzzi's practice involves intellectual property litigation, with an emphasis on patent litigation; developing IP strategies and IP portfolios aligned with business goals; assessing, avoiding and responding to third-party IP threats; in-bound and out-bound technology licensing, including standards-based licensing; and negotiating IP asset transactions such as mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures and the like. He has advised a wide range of industry leaders, including companies such as Olympus Corporation, Hewlett-Packard, Samsung, Conexant Systems, Fujitsu, Cadence Design Systems and Targus. Mr. Yannuzzi has served as primary outside intellectual property counsel to numerous electronics, software, telecommunications, and medical device companies.
Previously, Mr. Yannuzzi was a partner and co-manager of the electrical patent practice group at a prestigious Washington D.C. firm. Mr. Yannuzzi also has several years of in-house legal experience, where he served as Vice President of Worldwide Legal Affairs and Assistant Corporate Secretary to Skyworks Solutions, Inc., and as Vice President and Chief Intellectual Property Counsel to Conexant Systems, Inc., a multi-billion dollar semiconductor company.
Prior to entering the legal profession, Mr. Yannuzzi was an engineering manager at Allied Signal Aerospace, where he managed the development and integration of spacecraft communication and tracking systems for various NASA programs. He also led a team of scientists and engineers in the development of high precision satellite laser ranging systems for NASA's Crustal Dynamics Project.
Areas of Practice | 1) Intellectual Property, 2) False Advertising, 3) Lanham Act and Unfair Competition, 4) IP Licensing, 5) Technology and Commercial Transactions, 6) Patent Litigation, 7) Patent Prosecution and Counseling, 8) Trade Secrets and 9) Trademark Applications and Prosecution |
Law School | University of Maryland School of Law (J.D., 1993) |
Education | Johns Hopkins University (M.S., 1986); University of Delaware (B.S., 1982) |
Bar Member / Association | California State Bar Association |
Most recent firm | Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP |
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