FisherBroyles, LLP announces that David Makous has joined the firm’s Los Angeles office.
David is one of the top-rated Intellectual Property Litigation attorneys in Los Angeles and joins FisherBroyles from Lee Hong Degerman Kang & Waimey. David’s practice focuses on domestic and international intellectual property, technology, media, communications, and entertainment matters.
During his career, David has assisted in the domestic and global build out of several technologies and product lines. Notably, David has been lead counsel on multiple Inter Partes Reviews (IPRs) before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board; lead counsel on many patent, trademark, copyright, trade secret, franchise and unfair competition cases and administrative matters from commencement through appeals.
He has handled numerous class actions arising out of online practices, alleged false advertising of nutraceuticals, footwear, and other consumer products; franchise offerings and disputes; and unfair fraudulent or deceptive sales practice.
David has been selected as a SuperLawyer of Southern California and SuperLawyer of Northern California ten times between 2006 and 2019. In 2008, he received the Public Citizenship Award from the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America, and until recently served on the board of directors for The Barrio LaPlanta Project, a non-profit children’s education project in Nicaragua.
He is also an eminent writer, having recently published “Compulsory IP Licensing, Standards Setting, Standards Essential Patents and FRAND”; “Intellectual Property Law 2015, ‘Examining the Pendulum: How Courts are Returning to a Flexible Approach for Injunction and Damage Determinations’; and “Understanding Patent Reform Implications: Leading Lawyers on Defining Key Issues, Interpreting present Proposed Legislation, and Projecting Future Developments.”
David has a Bachelor’s Degree in Zoology from Duke University and a Juris Doctor from the University of Pittsburgh. He is admitted to practice in California, before several United States District Courts, and United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, Federal Circuit, U.S. Supreme Court and is registered with the United States Patent and Trademark Office.