David Devernoe

David Devernoe is a Partner in Rimon’s San Diego office.  Leveraging over two decades of intellectual property (IP) counseling experience as both in-house and outside counsel, David brings a Chief-IP counsel-type comprehensive and personalized perspective to his law practice.  His business-centered mindset fosters the smooth flow of commerce rather than being an impediment thereto, while at the same time accounting for and minimizing risks and rapidly executing on strategic IP opportunities.  Responsive, transparent, personable, inquisitive, and team-oriented are terms that aptly describe David’s seasoned approach.  Intellectual Property comprises a business tool/asset, whether it is a patent, trademark, copyright, trade secret, license, or other bundle of IP-related contractual rights, and David is an expert at acquisition, preservation, extension and enforcement such rights as well as evaluating and maximizing their value for his clients.

The core of David’s trusted-advisor approach drives from an intense knowledge of the underlying business models of his clients and the various technologies that drive them.  David has a wealth of experience securing, leveraging, and asserting IP rights for consumer product destined for retail shelves, technologies or products subject to intense FDA review, or niche industries that helps other businesses work.

Specifically, David brings extensive experience advising clients ranging in size from start-ups to multi-national organizations in a variety of technical arenas including medical diagnostics, medical devices, nucleic acid sequencing, bioinformatics and data translation, novel receptors, vaccines, RNA based therapeutics, lipid nano particles, antibody products and targets, immunology-focused technologies, gene therapy, metabolomics, digital health, additive manufacture and 3-D printing, AR/VR software and devices, near-eye displays and imaging/optical technologies, smart garments, compression garments, health and beauty, food prep and catering, athletic equipment, nutraceuticals, machine learning software and devices, consumer devices and services, and information technology.

The core legal work of David’s practice includes: Patent prosecution, trademark prosecution, IP licensing/assignment, post-grant patent challenges, trademark oppositions, IP due diligence/opinions and product clearance, litigation (patent, copyright, trademark, trade secret, business), technology-business deal identification and brokering.

Prior to joining Rimon, David served as an intellectual property partner at Troutman Pepper, senior IP counsel at Gen-Probe Inc. and Hologic, Inc., and as an IP associate at both Sidley Austin LLP and Morrison & Foerster LLP. David also previously served as an assistant professor at California State University San Marcos where he taught Biotechnology and the Law in the Master of Biotechnology degree program.