David M. Tennant is a partner in White & Case LLP's Washington, DC office and a member of the Intellectual Property Practice Group.

David has represented clients and served as lead counsel in numerous transactional matters including patent licensing negotiations, technology agreement negotiations and service provider agreement negotiations.

David has represented clients in various complex intellectual property patent cases in numerous district courts and the International Trade Commission concerning a wide variety of technologies including computer servers, network routers, microprocessors, semiconductor processes, semiconductor devices, image sensors, circuits, and consumer electronics.

David's representative litigation matters include:

• Represented technology companies in patent infringement cases in the International Trade Commission relating to semiconductor processes, devices and microprocessors;
• Represented a technology company in a patent infringement case in the Northern District of California relating to digital cameras and image sensors;
• Represented a technology company in a patent infringement case in the Eastern District of Texas, Tyler Division, relating to cache coherency for highly scalable servers that resulted in a large favorable settlement for the client;
• Represented a technology company in a patent infringement case in the Eastern District of Texas, Marshall Division, involving technology relating to semiconductors and consumer electronics products resulting in favorable settlement for the client; and
• Represented a technology company in a patent infringement case in the Eastern District of Texas, Tyler Division, relating to semiconductor memory, circuits and manufacturing technology that resulted in a favorable settlement for the client.

David's patent procurement experience includes drafting and prosecuting patent applications for various major corporations, both domestic and international, in a broad range of technologies. He has also counseled clients on establishing, developing, maintaining and leveraging patent portfolios to maximize value and has counseled clients on patent invalidity, enforceability and infringement studies.

David has worked abroad directly with a Japanese client for extended periods of time throughout his career and has developed a keen understanding of Japanese corporate culture. He also served as in-house counsel for a top Japanese-based international consumer electronics manufacturer.

Bars and Courts
Virginia State Bar
District of Columbia Bar

Education
JD, Franklin Pierce Law Center
BSEE, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Awards and Recognition
IAM Licensing 250: The World's leading Patent and Technology Licensing Practitioners

Publications
Co-author, "Supreme Court Hears Arguments on Business Method Claims—Will They Survive?" IT, Internet and Outsourcing Bulletin, December 2009 (with Monisha Deka). This article was also published in the North Carolina Bar Association's Corporate Counsel Section, Section Vol. 22, No. 2 January 2010.

Languages
English

Citizenship
United States