Michael David > Latham & Watkins LLP > San Francisco, United States > Lawyer Profile
Latham & Watkins LLP Offices
505 MONTGOMERY STREET
SUITE 2000
SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94111-6538
CALIFORNIA
United States
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Michael David
Position
Michael David is a partner in the firm’s International Trade Commission (ITC) Practice and Intellectual Property Litigation Practice, and represents clients in their highest stakes patent infringement and trade secret actions before the International Trade Commission and federal district courts.
Mr. David leverages extensive experience representing both complainants and respondents in more than three dozen ITC investigations, including as lead counsel, and participating in more than a dozen ITC trials to craft litigation strategies in matters including:
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- Automobile automatic terrain response technology
- Digital video receivers and broadband gateways
- Graphics processing technology
- Networking devices and related software
- Lithium-ion batteries and electric vehicles
- LTE wireless cellular devices
- Thermoplastic encapsulated electric motors
- Medical devices
- Biometric scanning technology
He also frequently participates in US Customs and Border Protection consultations regarding ITC exclusion order enforcement and Section 177 ruling requests.
Mr. David maintains an active pro bono practice and represents clients in litigation involving veterans’ rights, special education law, political asylum applications, and child custody applications. Mr. David earned a Litigator of the Week Runner-Up recognition from The American Lawyer for his pro bono representation of a US Army veteran before the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals.
Mr. David is a member of the International Trade Commission Trial Lawyers Association.
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (International Trade Commission)
(Next Generation Partners)Latham & Watkins LLP is highly active at the ITC and has broad expertise in matters relating to Section 337 proceedings. The group represents clients from a variety of industries and serves as key port of call for the likes of Comcast, The Overhead Door Corporation and Netgear. The practice is co-led from Washington DC by Bert Reiser, a seasoned trial lawyer with ‘an exceptional reputation in ITC litigation‘, and IP and trade strategist Jamie Underwood, who is an expert in Section 337 actions. The group also includes DC-based IP specialist Maximilian Grant, who represents industry giants like Philip Morris International and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company in proceedings the ITC, as well as Douglas Lumish
in Silicon Valley, who handles a broad range of patent infringement claims. Also in Washington DC, Michael David is ‘very knowledgeable about case law‘ and is another key contact in the firm’s ITC practice group.
Lawyer Rankings
- Next Generation Partners United States > Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (International Trade Commission)
- Patents: litigation (International Trade Commission) United States > Intellectual property
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Insurance > Advice to policyholders
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: global offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings
- Antitrust > Cartel
- International trade > CFIUS
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Finance > Commercial lending
- Intellectual property > Copyright
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Energy > Energy transactions: electric power
- Energy > Energy transactions: oil and gas
- Environment > Environment: litigation
- Environment > Environment: regulatory
- Environment > Environment: transactional
- Finance > Fintech
- Real estate > Land use/zoning
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
- Dispute resolution > Financial services litigation
- Environment > Environment: regulatory
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
- Healthcare > Life sciences
- Dispute resolution > M&A litigation: defense
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
- Media, technology and telecoms > Media and entertainment: litigation
- Media, technology and telecoms > Media and entertainment: transactional
- Antitrust > Merger control
- Environment > Environment: regulatory
- Environment > Environment: regulatory
- Intellectual property > Patents: licensing
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (full coverage)
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (International Trade Commission)
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Private equity buyouts: large deals ($500m+)
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: consumer products (including tobacco)
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: toxic tort
- Finance > Project finance
- Real estate > Real estate
- Real estate > Real estate investment trusts (REITs)
- Energy > Renewable/alternative power
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- Environment > Environment: regulatory
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Industry focus > Sport
- Finance > Structured finance: derivatives and structured products
- Media, technology and telecoms > Technology transactions
- Media, technology and telecoms > Telecoms and broadcast: regulatory
- Media, technology and telecoms > Telecoms and broadcast: transactions
- Intellectual property > Trade secrets (litigation and non-contentious matters)
- Tax > US taxes: contentious
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
Firm Rankings
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Corporate governance
- International trade > Customs, export controls and economic sanctions
- Energy > Energy regulation: electric power
- Energy > Energy regulation: oil and gas
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- Government > Government contracts
- Insurance > Insurance: non-contentious
- Dispute resolution > International litigation
- Investment fund formation and management > Private equity funds (including venture capital)
- Healthcare > Service providers
- Finance > Structured finance: securitization
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Venture capital and emerging companies
- Dispute resolution > Financial services litigation
- Healthcare > Health insurers
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- Intellectual property > Trademarks: litigation
- Finance > Financial services regulation
- Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Shareholder activism