David W. Potashnik

David W. Potashnik is a patent attorney. He earned a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Notre Dame in 2001 and a Juris Doctor, magna cum laude, with a Certificate in Intellectual Property, from the University of Akron in 2006. While in law school, Dave worked full time as a patent agent and prepared and prosecuted more than 100 patent applications in a variety of technologies. He also has experience in legal opinion work.

Before his legal career, Dave was an electrical engineer with a division of Motorola Labs in Tempe, Arizona, designing hardware and software platforms. He was also a research fellow at the University of Notre Dame, where his research focused on device physics, semiconductor fabrication, and microprocessor design. He is the author of numerous publications and is knowledgeable in many technical fields, including ASIC design, memory design, communication systems, microprocessor design, network protocol analysis, computer and network security, software development, and device physics and fabrication techniques.

Dave was registered to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) in 2005 and admitted to practice in Ohio in 2007. At the University of Akron, he was a contributing editor of the law review and president of the Intellectual Property & Technology Law Association, and he was recognized for outstanding achievement in Copyright Law, Property Law, and Advanced Patent Prosecution. He also received a Bachelor of Science in Physics, with honors, and a minor in chemistry from Ohio Northern University in 1999.

He is a member of the American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA), the American Bar Association, the Cleveland Intellectual Property Law Association (CIPLA), and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).

Selected Publications

1. Phillips v. AWH: Changing the Rules of the Game. David Potashnik, 39 Akron L. Rev. 863 (2006). (Also selected for republication in the Intellectual Property Law Review after being selected as one of the best intellectual property articles for 2006.)
2. Performance Analysis of Cryptographic SOC in a Linux OS. David Potashnik, Ani Mukherjee, Eda Turan. Motorola S3 2003 Symposium (Itasca, Illinois).
3. Analyzing a Cryptographic Accelerator in the SOC Platform Context. Lawrence Case, Ani Mukherjee, David Potashnik, Mark Redman, and Eda Turan.
4. Enhanced Diffusion and Mobility of Brownian Particles in Periodic Potentials. Ethan H. Cannon, David W. Potashnik, Gerald J. Iafrate. Presented at European Physical Society March 2001.

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