Press Release
IP Litigator David Maxwell Joins Duane Morris as a Trial Partner in Atlanta
ATLANTA, March 17, 2008 - Duane Morris is pleased to announce that David Maxwell has joined the firm as a partner in the Trial Practice Group in its Atlanta office. Maxwell is a leading intellectual property litigator who focuses his practice on patent, trademark, copyright and other complex business litigation, licensing and counseling matters. He was formerly a partner with Alston & Bird LLP.
Maxwell is the sixth attorney to join the firm's Atlanta office in the past three months. The office welcomed four IP lawyers in November and added a prominent securities litigator in January. The firm has also rapidly grown its IP group nationwide, with recent additions in New York, Chicago, Houston and San Diego.
Maxwell is experienced in dealing with patent matters affecting major businesses nationwide and involving a wide array of technologies, including business methods, film structures, radar applications, packaging products and structures, software, and electronic and mechanical products. He has also handled matters involving telecommunications systems, dispatching and routing systems and absorbent materials. Maxwell has represented clients in patent litigation in district courts throughout the country, and in other complex business disputes in state and federal courts nationwide, including the Fifth, Eleventh and Federal Circuit Courts of Appeals and the Georgia Supreme Court. Regularly retained as counsel to clients in negotiating technology transfer, licensing and co-development agreements, Maxwell routinely assists clients with trademark, trade secret and copyright matters through all stages of pre-litigation assessment to litigation. He is a frequent speaker on intellectual property matters.
Admitted to practice in Georgia, Maxwell earned his J.D. from Duke University in 1992 and his B.B.A. from the College of William and Mary in 1986.
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Duane Morris LLP, one of the 100 largest law firms in the world, is a full-service firm of more than 650 lawyers. In addition to legal services, Duane Morris has independent affiliates employing approximately 100 professionals engaged in other disciplines. With offices in major markets in the United States and internationally, Duane Morris represents clients across the U.S. and around the world.
