David J. Brody

David Brody is a principal at Hamilton Brook Smith Reynolds whose practice focuses on complex business disputes and IP litigation in trial and appellate courts across the country. In addition to patent infringement litigation, David’s practice includes disputes involving trade secret misappropriation, nondisclosure agreements, invention assignment and license agreements, trademark infringement, and unfair competition and other intellectual property disputes. He also has extensive experience in licensing and other IP transfer transactions.

David works with clients ranging from large multi-national corporations and major academic institutions to start-ups and individuals. His clients have been in a wide range of industries, including medical technology, organic chemistry, oil refinery waste remediation, chemical engineering, CT imaging, acoustics, genetic diagnostic testing, telecommunications, plastic chambers for underground conduits, video signal processing, and medical apparatus. 

David holds a chemistry degree from Brown University, a physical organic chemistry master’s degree from Yale University and a law degree from New York University.

Before joining Hamilton Brook Smith Reynolds, David was with Widett, Slater & Goldman, P.C. and Foley Hoag, both in Boston, and Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison in New York.

Publications

• What Did I Do Wrong To Harm the Value of My Patents: Consequences of Inattention in License Negotiations and in Corporate Acquisitions and Reorganizations , June 2011
• Employee Invention Assignment Agreements: Issues in Getting Them Right, June 2011
• Good Intentions are Not Enough to Avoid Sanctions for Inadequate Preservation of Electronic Files in Litigation , March 2010
• You May Have Won the Case, But Those Lost Profits May Not Be Your Own, November 2008
• Employee invention assignments given an about face, New England In-house, April 2008
• E-Discovery: The Rules Catch Up to Reality, December 2006

Professional Associations

• American Bar Association, IP Litigation Section
• Boston Bar Association
• Boston Patent Law Association, Litigation Section
• Order of the Coif Honorary Society

Bar Admissions

• Massachusetts
• U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts
• U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
• U.S. Court of Appeals for First Circuit
• Various federal trial and appellate courts around the country