Daniel H. Shulman

Daniel Shulman helps companies, organizations and individuals create a culture of innovation resulting in securing and leveraging exclusive rights to the things that make them different.

Dan helps clients unlock the value of their innovation by ensuring that intellectual property—the tool that makes their innovation exclusive—allows clients to profit from their best ideas by being different, and staying different, from their competitors. Dan both enforces and defends their rights through proven corporate strategies and culture-building methods to protect both known and unknown innovations within an organization. When necessary, Dan leads his clients’ efforts in monetization, licensing and litigation, and also vigorously defends their innovations when accused of infringement.

Dan handles the full spectrum of intellectual property from complex patent, trademark, copyright and trade secret litigation, to all aspects of patent and trademark prosecution and portfolio management. Clients depend on him to litigate cases through jury verdict if necessary, while also considering cost-effective alternatives in and out of the courtroom. He also advises clients on false advertising issues, including clearance work and litigating and resolving advertising disputes in court and at the National Advertising Division of the Better Business Bureau.

As a former Chief IP Counsel for multibillion-dollar companies, Dan has a successful record of managing all innovation and thousands of worldwide patents and trademarks, increasing IP portfolio scope and quality, and delivering on business goals. Drawing on his in-house experience, he understands the challenges businesses face, and values being knowledgeable in all areas of intellectual property law versus specializing in one, offering clients quality service as outside counsel, and meeting or exceeding a client’s budget expectations.

Experience

• As first chair litigator, won a multimillion-dollar jury verdict of willful false advertising and patent infringement for an industry leader in industrial fans, after taking over the case following discovery.
• Obtained a favorable settlement in a patent case quickly after the filing of a district court complaint on child-restraint closures for Reynolds Presto Products Inc.
• Obtained favorable settlement and valuable license rights in patent case quickly after filing complaint on child-resistant closures in Reynolds Presto Products Inc.
• Obtained a rare General Exclusion Order in the U.S. International Trade Commission, halting all child-restraint slider products infringing Reynolds Presto Products Inc.’s patents, regardless of source, from entering the United States.
• Represented a start-up clothing company in enforcement of client’s trademark, resulting in favorable settlement preserving all of client’s trademark rights and limiting the competing brand
• Aided an 89-year-old patent holder on a quilting iron in finding a licensing partner to bring her product to market with payment of both patent royalties and name image and likeness royalties for associating her story with the product.
• Obtained judgment of willful patent infringement, treble damages, attorneys’ fees, permanent injunction and assignment of the infringer’s patent application in a case involving infringement of client’s gemstone-based investment product patents
• Overturned a default judgment, after being hired by the client when the default judgment was obtained against them, and obtained a favorable settlement in a trademark case preserving all client’s trademark rights and limiting a competing brand.