Daniel Pierron

I'll research this attorney before drafting.

Let me look for litigation and PTAB appearances specifically.

Daniel C. Pierron — Widerman Malek, P.L. (Melbourne, Fla.)

Specialty / focus areas. Pierron's practice is primarily patent prosecution and portfolio counseling, with an enforcement and licensing component. His registered-patent-agent background is in electromechanical and life-sciences hardware: semiconductor and LED-based lighting devices (including "biologically effective lighting"), medical devices (catheter and hub design, stents, grafts, venous filters, drug-eluting devices, OCT systems), plus software, business methods, mechanical devices, and telecommunications systems. He also handles trademarks, copyright, trade secrets, and data-privacy work (he holds the IAPP CIPP/US designation). Firm bios describe "intellectual property litigation" and "enforcement" among his areas, but his published self-description emphasizes prosecution.

Side preference. The tracked data are thin — one appearance, on the defendant side, as back-up counsel. That is consistent with a practice built around representing small and mid-sized technology companies (often accused defendants and start-ups) rather than a plaintiff/NPE monetization practice, but a single back-up-counsel entry should not be read as a reliable side-preference signal. Note that Widerman Malek as a firm does appear as plaintiff's counsel in at least one recent patent case (Seller Hardware LLC v. Ship Hero LLC, S.D.N.Y.), though no source ties Pierron to that matter.

Firm context. Pierron joined Widerman Malek in 2012 as an associate patent attorney and became a partner in January 2018, where he remains. Before that he was a patent agent/attorney at Rosenbaum IP (also reported as Rosenbaum & Silvert, PC) in suburban Chicago from roughly 2009–2012, and his Avvo profile reports he assisted in managing prosecution for a publicly traded client with 100+ active applications and lists an issued patent for Lighting Science Group Corp. as a representative matter (self-reported).

Notable cases / PTAB / bar. The single tracked litigation entry is anonymized in the source data (listed only as an untitled defendant-side, back-up-counsel appearance for Widerman Malek), so no case name, venue, or outcome can be reported. I found no verified IPR, PGR, or other PTAB filings naming Pierron as counsel; on the available record he should not be characterized as a regular PTAB practitioner. Bar and education: B.S. Engineering Physics, University of Kansas (2008); J.D., Chicago-Kent College of Law (2011); admitted in Florida and Illinois, the Northern District of Illinois, the Middle District of Florida, and before the USPTO.

Sourcing caveat: the above draws on Widerman Malek/Primerus firm bios, Best Lawyers, Martindale, and Pierron's self-reported Avvo and Cornell LII profiles. Biographical details about his family that appeared in one firm interview were excluded as non-professional.