David Hoffman is a part of the firmwide Biotechnology, Chemical, and Pharmaceutical patent prosecution team and a patent lawyer with more than 17 years of experience. Not only has he been immersed in patent prosecution, providing advice and strategies to clients in order to prepare applications and navigate their prosecution before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, but he is also seasoned in conducting appeals before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, and regularly assists clients with developing and rendering freedom to operate and invalidity opinions.
David Hoffman focuses his practice on patent prosecution and counseling in all areas of chemistry and the life sciences. David has planned, drafted, and prosecuted patent applications for many diverse clients, working directly with large corporations, small companies, startup ventures and individual inventors. David was instrumental in obtaining key patent coverage on new technologies in the pharmaceutical, diagnostic and medical device fields that have since been commercialized or licensed. He also has extensive experience in due diligence, freedom to operate and patentability analyses, as well as in the planning and drafting of formal opinions regarding validity and infringement. David's practice encompasses all technology areas within life sciences and chemistry, including pharmaceuticals, medical devices and implants, dosage forms, diagnostic methods, industrial chemical compositions, biotechnology and many other medical and chemical inventions.
Before attending law school, David spent several years in a university cell biology and biochemistry laboratory, where he was engaged in research concerning cytoskeletal and mitotic processes. David's work in the laboratory provided him with the experience to fully appreciate the important concepts behind many patent applications, and to arrive at creative solutions to intricate problems in patent drafting and prosecution. While he was there, he also co-authored several articles in scientific journals.