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David Cooperberg

Specialized Practice Lawyer

David focuses on patent litigation in federal district courts, as well as post-grant proceedings in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
His experience includes a broad spectrum of technologies, including semiconductor design and manufacturing, solid-state memory, LEDs, CMOS and CCD image sensors, wireless, cable and fiber-based networking, multimedia user interfaces, and automotive entertainment systems.

David served as a staff process and modeling engineer at Lam Research Corporation for a decade, where he designed, implemented, and maintained a semi-empirical process simulator for modeling feature-scale profile evolution during plasma processing of integrated circuits. He also performed electromagnetics, fluid dynamics, and plasma discharge modeling to facilitate plasma processor development, and developed algorithms for an interferometric endpoint system. David’s doctoral research and dissertation focused on computer simulation of surface wave sustained plasma discharges. He has also conducted research on quantum effects in low temperature superconducting circuits. David is the co-author and named inventor on ten U.S. patents involving innovations in the field of plasma process development and plasma processor design. He has also authored several publications on various topics relating to plasma processing of semiconductors.

David has over 13 years of patent litigation experience working with domestic and international clients across jurisdictions, and has had particular success leveraging his technical and industry experience in the furtherance of his clients interests.

Expertise

Industries

Experience

Representative matters

  • Nichia Corporation in a 3-patent ITC Investigation in which all asserted claims were found not infringed, not supportive of a technical domestic industry, and/or invalid.
  • Nichia Corporation in defending their LED packages in a 5-patent infringement case, winning complete victory through IPRs, district court motion practice, and appellate work.
  • Nichia Corporation in winning a motion to dismiss for reasons of both patent indefiniteness and lack of written description (on appeal).
  • Major manufacturer of solid state storage systems as petitioner in Inter Partes Reviews finding substantially all challenged patent claims unpatentable (on appeal).
  • Exercise equipment manufacturer in obtaining Inter Partes review of competitor’s patent directed to web-enabled interface patent (previous firm experience).

Published Work

  • Cooperberg, David, Co-author, (2024) “Why Fed. Circ. Affirmed Attorney Fee Award In PersonalWeb”, Law360

Qualifications

Admissions

New York, 2011

New Jersey, 2010

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, 2011

Courts

United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, 2017

United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, 2018

United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, 2020

Academic

J.D. cum laude, Fordham University School of Law, 2010

Ph.D, Physics, University of California, Berkeley, 1998

B.S. (with distinction), Applied and Engineering Physics, Cornell University, 1990

Disclaimer
A&O Shearman was formed on May 1, 2024 by the combination of Shearman & Sterling LLP and Allen & Overy LLP and their respective affiliates (the legacy firms). Any matters referred to above may include matters undertaken by one or more of the legacy firms rather than A&O Shearman.