Daniel E. Alberti

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I want to disambiguate — there appears to be another "Alberti" attorney at Feinberg Day. Let me verify.

Daniel E. Alberti — Patent Litigation Practice Summary

Specialty / focus. Alberti is a generalist IP and complex-commercial litigator rather than a life-sciences or standards-essential specialist. His own practice description covers patents, trademarks, copyrights and trade secrets, with client experience in the semiconductor, telecommunications, medical device, dietary supplement and healthcare industries. The two tracked matters are consistent with a hardware/semiconductor tilt: the Netlist dispute concerns memory modules and semiconductor chip technology, and his firm materials highlight a three-month patent infringement trial among his trial credits. No Wi-Fi/standards, pharma or mechanical portfolio focus is evident from the available record.

Side preference. The tracked record is evenly split — one plaintiff-side appearance and one defendant-side appearance — so there is no clear NPE/PAE or operating-company specialization. He is best characterized as a defense-leaning trial lawyer who also takes plaintiff work (his prior firm biography notes a multi-million-dollar plaintiff's arbitration award in a New York business dispute). The defendant-side entry is the Netlist matter; the plaintiff-side entry is attributed to Feinberg Day Alberti & Thompson as trial counsel.

Firm context. Alberti is a partner at McDermott Will & Emery LLP in Menlo Park/Silicon Valley, where he formerly headed the firm's Silicon Valley Trial Department. Earlier in his career he was a senior trial attorney in the San Francisco District Attorney's office. He has also taught as a faculty member of the Hastings College of Advocacy.

Notable cases. The most prominent tracked matter is Netlist, Inc. v. SMART Storage Systems, Inc. et al. (N.D. Cal. No. 4:13-cv-05889-YGR), where he appeared for defendant Diablo Technologies through MWE; the docket shows he filed Diablo's supplemental declaration and MWE's withdrawal motion in 2018, and the case was ultimately dismissed without prejudice following parallel inter partes reviews. A related Netlist v. Diablo Technologies trade-secret/contract jury trial (N.D. Cal., March 2015) produced a complete defense verdict — no trade-secret misappropriation, no breach of contract, and only $2 in nominal Lanham Act damages against Netlist. Firm press materials credit that trial win to partners Russell Hayman and Fabio Marino, not to Alberti, so his personal role in the verdict is not independently confirmed.

PTAB / IPR experience. No evidence found that Alberti is a regular PTAB practitioner; his profile does not emphasize post-grant work. The Netlist matter did have companion IPR proceedings, but I could not verify his individual involvement in them.

Bar / education. Admitted to the California bar in 1976 (No. 68620, active); also admitted to the U.S. District Courts for the Northern, Eastern, Central and Southern Districts of California. J.D., McGeorge School of Law, University of the Pacific (1975); B.S., University of Santa Clara (1971).

Disambiguation caution. The Feinberg Day firm name contains a different "Alberti" — court filings identify David Alberti (Cal. Bar No. 220625) as the Feinberg Day partner, and the current firm roster pairs him with Ian Feinberg and Elizabeth Day. Daniel E. Alberti's own current bio places him at McDermott. The plaintiff-side Feinberg Day appearance attributed to Daniel E. Alberti in the tracked data should therefore be treated with caution, as it may reflect a name conflation with David Alberti.