David Lawrence Hecht

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David Lawrence Hecht — Hecht Partners LLP (New York)

Specialty / focus. Hecht is a registered patent attorney and trained electrical/computer engineer (B.S., Rutgers) whose practice centers on electronics, computer hardware and software, communications, and medical-device technologies, with a secondary copyright/DMCA practice. His firm describes district court and ITC trial experience across those areas; he has also handled mechanical/consumer-electronics patent matters (e.g., Nano Fire LLC v. Fireaway). His tracked patent docket, however, is heavily concentrated in one campaign: inkjet printhead and heater-chip technology in Slingshot Printing LLC v. Canon U.S.A., Inc. (E.D.N.Y.), covering U.S. Patent Nos. 7,152,951, 7,195,341, 7,290,864, 7,484,823, 7,559,629, 7,594,708, and 7,938,523.

Side preference. He works both sides but skews plaintiff/patent-owner. The tracked appearances split 5 plaintiff / 3 defendant, and every tracked matter lists Hecht Partners; the "defendant"-side entries in Canon U.S.A., Inc. v. Slingshot Printing LLC appear to correspond to the parallel PTAB/adversarial proceedings against his patent-owner client rather than to true defense of an operating company. At the firm level, analytics compiled on Hecht Partners' PTAB activity report roughly 88% patent-owner-side and 12% challenger-side appearances, with about 65% of matters involving NPEs — consistent with the enforcement-oriented practice (notably the multi-year Proxense, LLC campaign against Intel, Google, Samsung, and Microsoft). The firm publicly describes itself as representing clients "on both sides of the docket."

Firm context. Hecht is founder and co-managing partner of Hecht Partners LLP (founded 2020, New York, with offices in California, Minnesota, Florida, and Texas); he and Maxim Price lead the IP group. Prior to founding the firm he was an associate at Jones Day (2008–2010), Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan (2011–2014), and Steptoe & Johnson (2014–2018), then a founding partner of the New York office of Pierce Bainbridge Beck Price & Hecht (2018–2020). He also served as in-house counsel at a publicly traded IP licensing/assertion company; the firm's bio does not name the company.

Notable matters and outcomes. He was a member of the Apple v. Samsung trial team and of the ITC trial team that obtained the first exclusion order against Apple. As lead counsel for Corellium against Apple, he won summary judgment and Apple dropped its remaining claims before trial. He helped secure a $25 million copyright jury verdict for BMG Rights Management (2015) and argued the Ninth Circuit appeal reviving choreographer Kyle Hanagami's copyright claims against Epic Games (2023). In the tracked Slingshot matters, however, the outcomes ran against his client: Canon's IPRs produced final written decisions holding all challenged claims unpatentable, and the Federal Circuit affirmed across multiple appeals in April, May, and July 2026. On those appeals, appellate briefing was handled by MoloLamken and Fitch, Even, Tabin & Flannery; Hecht is listed in the district court docket as co-counsel for Slingshot. He was co-lead counsel for Proxense in its suit against Samsung over Samsung Pay biometric-authentication patents, which Samsung settled on the eve of a Western District of Texas trial.

PTAB / IPR experience. Yes — recurring. His firm bio states he has appeared in dozens of patent matters including IPRs, and he is listed as lead counsel/prosecuting attorney in recent proceedings, including Microsoft Corp. v. Proxense, LLC (IPR2024-00573 et al.) as patent-owner counsel and Samsung Electronics Co. v. TVnGO Ltd. (IPR2026-00213/-00214) under a patent-owner power of attorney. He is registered with the USPTO (Reg. No. 61,618).

Bar / education. J.D., Fordham University School of Law (2008); B.S. in electrical and computer engineering, Rutgers (2004, cum laude); M.B.A., Rutgers (2005). Admitted in New Jersey (2008), New York (2009), Texas (2023), Arizona and Connecticut (2025), and before the Federal Circuit, Third, Ninth, and Eleventh Circuits, several district courts, and the USPTO.

Note: technology-area and side-preference figures drawn from third-party analytics (Ex Parte/PTAB reporting) are firm-level rather than attorney-specific and should be treated as indicative only.