My CV (Daniel Basov)
Resume:
DANIEL BASOV
New York, NY 10003
************@*****.***
EDUCATION
Fordham University School of Law, New York, NY
JD, Evening Division, Top 25%, Dean’s List, June 1996
New York University, New York, NY
Joint Bachelor Degree in Computer Science and Mathematics, June 1987
ADMISSIONS
New York
District of Columbia
United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Registered with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
EXPERIENCE
Howrey, LLP, Washington, DC
Senior Associate, May 2007-present
• In charge of a small team of junior associates and personally responsible for formulating and carrying out defense strategies, motion practice, depositions, expert reports, Markman claim construction briefing and arguments for several high visibility patent infringement cases involving medical ultrasound technology, consumer electronics, computer software, and business methods.
• Personally responsible for counseling and communications with the clients, experts, local counsel, and the conduct of the litigation.
Kenyon & Kenyon, LLP, New York, NY
Senior Associate, July 2005-March 2007
• Supervised domestic and foreign patent prosecution activities and provided client counseling in connection with a wide range of business method, software and electronics patents and inventions, trademarks, copyrights, and trade secrets.
• Responsible for client counseling, development of successful licensing campaigns, conduct of negotiations, organizing and strengthening of clients’ IP portfolios and patent acquisition programs.
• In charge of motion practice, taking and defending depositions, preparation of claim construction briefs, and mock trial presentations in several high profile patent infringement cases and in connection with Walker Process antitrust and related state law counterclaims.
Chadbourne & Parke, LLP, New York, NY
Associate, July 2000-July 2005
• Supervised and conducted all aspects of US and PCT patent prosecution, including preparation of patent applications, responses to office actions, interviews and communications with inventors, examiners, in-house counsel, etc.
• Conducted, evaluated and rendered legal opinions relating to prior art searches, novelty, validity, infringement risk evaluation and right-to-use for patents and trademarks.
• Responsible for all aspects of corporate IP activities, including due diligence, substantive IP portfolio evaluation and risk analysis. Drafted and negotiated distribution, consulting, joint development, co-branding, ASP, technology and IP transfer, e-commerce, and many other types of agreements.
• Responsible for all aspects of litigation, including discovery supervision, motion practice, taking and defending depositions, all contacts with technical and damages experts, Markman briefs and claim construction hearings, pre- and post-trial motions and witness preparation. Argued in limine, discovery and summary judgment motions.
• Served as co-counsel during several mock and actual jury trials and prepared briefs and Fed. Cir. appellate briefs in a number of high profile patent and copyright infringement, trade secret misappropriation and breach of license agreement actions in the technology areas relating to high temperature superconducting RF front end receivers, wireless remote control devices, bar scanning and OCR recognition devices, Internet telephony, consumer products and pricing and billing software systems for major banking applications.
Amster, Rothstein & Ebenstein, New York, NY
Associate, 1998-July 2000
• Prepared and drafted patent applications, and prepared responses to office actions in electrical, mechanical and computer fields.
• Prepared IP licensing agreements, invalidity and non-infringement opinions.
• Involved in all aspects of motion practice, legal research, discovery, and prior art analysis.
OTHER EXPERIENCE
Information Builders, Inc., New York, NY
In-house Licensing Advisor, 1997-1998
• Conducted contractual negotiations and resolved disputes with clients and other software vendors and consulted company management on issues of software licensing, copyright and trade secret protection, employment issues and outsourcing agreements.
Computer Software Developer, 1988-1997
• Responsible for the design, implementation and support of the interface technologies between various IBM Mainframe databases and SQL client server technologies. Designed and implemented data access components for the investment banking and general decision making business applications, data warehousing and reporting tools. In charge of integration of the Mainframe software products with PC, Unix and SQL client-servers.
AT&T Corp., Morristown, NJ / IMI Consulting, Inc.
Software Development Consultant for AT&T, 1987-1988
• Responsible for the design and implementation of an auditing system that supported movement and processing of large volumes of billing data between various databases.
LANGUAGES
Fluent in Russian.
COMPUTER LANGUAGES
C, C++, Assembler, Fortran, Cobol, Pascal, HTML, Java
PUBLICATIONS
• "The United States Supreme Court Breathes New Life Into the Doctrine of Patent Exhaustion,” to be published in the Computer Law Review International, Feb. 2009.
• "Enhanced Damages for Willful Infringement and Affirmative Duty of Due Care,” New Developments in IP Law, Chadbourne & Parke Open CLE Presentation, Apr. 2005.
• "The Dedication Rule's Effect on Business Strategy," Law Journal Newsletters - Patent Strategy & Management, Vol. 5, Num. 1, May 2004.
• "Patents for Financing Structures," Project Finance Newswire, Sep. 2003.
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