Dan Higgs has over 20 years of experience as a patent practitioner. He represents clients in post-grant proceedings at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and in other patent matters, including patent procurement and building and managing U.S. and international portfolios, product clearance analyses, non-infringement and invalidity opinions, and due diligence evaluations.
After earning a degree in applied physics, Mr. Higgs attended law school at the University of California, Berkeley, which was then and has remained U.S. News & World Report’s highest-ranked law school for intellectual property law. He first practiced at one of the largest intellectual property law firms in the U.S., where he worked on all aspects of patent practice. Mr. Higgs subsequently moved to the patent group of a larger general-practice law firm, where he spent nearly a decade specializing in patent prosecution and, from their inception, post-grant proceedings.
Mr. Higgs joined L&P after serving for over seven years in his subsequent position as Chief IP Counsel for MedVenture, an investment group that focuses on medical devices and technologies that improve human health and wellness. In this capacity, he analyzed potential investments for intellectual property risks and opportunities and conducted due diligence analyses for acquisitions. He also integrated into MedVenture’s investment companies, from startup to early-stage commercialized to well-established, to manage all facets of their intellectual property. In this role, he procured U.S. and international patent and trademark protection and built international patent portfolios for the companies, asserted patents against infringers, licensed intellectual property rights, defended against patent validity challenges, and conducted all intellectual property aspects of multiple technology purchases and sales and company acquisitions, mergers, and exits.
Mr. Higgs draws on his experience working closely with company boards, CEOs, and other decision makers to provide advice and services tailored to company objectives. His technical expertise includes a wide range of medical devices, including radiofrequency ablation devices, endoscopes, stents and other implantable devices, vascular access devices (ports, catheters, blood collection systems, safety needles, etc.), needleless connectors, blood pumps, analyte detection and monitoring systems, patient monitoring systems, anesthesia machines, orthopedic implants, intraocular implants and sensors, dental prostheses, and dental curing lights. His experience extends to technologies outside the medical realm, including automotive safety systems, natural gas vehicle conversion systems, hydraulic fracturing systems, nanostructures and related fabrication processes, semiconductor fabrication, weather detection systems, lidar systems, and optical systems.
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