David W. Higer is an experienced trial lawyer with a national federal court practice focusing on all areas of intellectual property law, including related commercial disputes, across a wide array of technologies. Dave has built a career on the ability to simplify the highly complex technical and legal issues in these cases to the key issues a judge or jury needs to understand to resolve them in his clients’ favor. Specific to patents, he has tried cases before federal district courts, the International Trade Commission, and arbitration tribunals. Dave also actively practices before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and the Patent Trial and Appeal Board. He acts as lead counsel both in crafting litigation strategy and in representing clients at trial. Dave has worked with clients in a wide range of industries, handling patent cases involving databases, digital imaging technology (both hardware and software), embedded systems, encryption, gaming technology, medical devices, optics, semiconductor technology, standard-essential patents, and telecommunications (both hardware and software).