Daniel Richards is special counsel in the Intellectual Property Practice Group in the firm's San Francisco office. He focuses his work on patent and IP litigation involving a variety of technologies, including computer, networking, mobile device, semiconductor, software, RF display, content distribution, and other technologies.
Daniel is experienced in all stages of district court and ITC litigation from pre-suit investigations, discovery, claim construction, pre-trial proceedings, trial, and post-trial briefing, and appeals. Recently, he served as the technical lead in a multi-patent case in the Eastern District of Texas and before the PTAB, which resulted in favorable resolution for his client following dispositive motion practice and the institution of IPRs against all asserted claims—including claims from five alleged SEPs. He has also served as the technical lead in a four-patent ITC investigation that resulted in findings that all asserted claims were not infringed and/or invalid. Because several of the matters Daniel handles also involve international IP assertions, Daniel is also involved in strategy and coordination for those disputes.
Daniel has extensive experience in all stages of proceedings before the patent office. He has served as either lead counsel or counsel of record in more than three dozen PTAB proceedings on behalf of both patentees and patent challengers, and has also represented patent challengers in connection with several ex parte reexamination requests.
Daniel has an active pro bono practice, having successfully represented clients in domestic violence hearings, appeals of the denial of welfare benefits, wrongful conviction, and immigration matters. In 2022, he also led a trial team that obtained a $627,000 settlement after the first week of a three-week trial for his clients on their claims of age and race-based harassment and discrimination by their landlords.
During law school, Daniel externed for the Honorable Ronald Whyte, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.