Dawn M. David

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Let me find her firm bio and details on the tracked case and PTAB work.

Let me verify the trial outcome, the Quarles move, and disambiguate the two profiles.

Practice focus. Dawn M. David is an IP litigator whose work centers on patent disputes, built on an engineering background (B.S. mechanical engineering and M.S. engineering management, University of South Florida, 2009). Her published practice description covers patents, trademarks, trade dress, copyrights, trade secrets and false advertising, and lists technologies including medical devices and diagnostics, aerospace components, construction equipment, transportation/traffic-safety equipment (including autonomous vehicles), barcode readers, AI processors and chips, telecommunications, computer networking, mobile devices, software, video streaming and compression, digital rights management, graphics processing and network security. The one tracked matter, Security First Innovations, LLC v. Google LLC (E.D. Va., No. 2:23-cv-00097), is a multi-patent suit over data storage and encryption technology (data chunking, encryption/session keys, virtual disks).

Side preference. On the tracked record she sits entirely on the defense side (0 plaintiff / 1 defendant), appearing for Google as part of the Quinn Emanuel trial team against a patent-holding plaintiff. Her own practice descriptions frame her as both offensive and defensive, but the confirmed litigation record here is defense-side work for operating companies. Note that Law360's attorney pages also list her name on additional patent matters (e.g., Via Transportation v. RideCo, W.D. Tex.; Adaptive Spectrum and Signal Alignment v. AT&T, E.D. Tex.; Medline Industries v. C.R. Bard, N.D. Ga.; GREE v. Supercell, E.D. Tex.), but these are not in the authoritative tracked list and I could not independently verify them.

Firm context. She is listed at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan (Salt Lake City / Los Angeles) in connection with the tracked case and appeared pro hac vice for Google in the Eastern District of Virginia. A Dawn David with matching credentials — same law school and class year, Utah bar admission, same 2022–23 Super Lawyers "Rising Stars" recognition for IP litigation — is now a partner at Quarles & Brady in Milwaukee. I could not independently confirm that these are the same individual, so the firm transition should be treated as unverified.

Notable results, PTAB/ITC and bar. Her published practice description credits a complete defense verdict for a large technology company in a $185 million, multi-patent trial brought by a non-practicing entity (jury deliberated under an hour), a favorable eve-of-trial ITC settlement for a GPU maker, and ITC subpoena work protecting a streaming company's source code; the $185 million NPE trial is consistent with, but not independently confirmed as, Security First Innovations v. Google. She states she represents clients in ITC actions and in inter partes review proceedings before the PTAB; I found no specific IPR/PGR appearance of record for her (the parallel IPRs in the SFI/Google dispute appear to have been handled by other counsel). Reported bar admissions: Illinois, Utah, Wisconsin; court admissions include the Federal Circuit, E.D. Tex., N.D. Ill., D. Utah, D. Minn., D. Colo., and E.D./W.D. Wis. Education: J.D., University of Illinois Chicago School of Law (formerly The John Marshall Law School), 2013, magna cum laude; B.S./M.S., University of South Florida, 2009.

Sources: Law360 attorney pages and docket entries (E.D. Va. 2:23-cv-00097), CourtListener/PACER filings, Super Lawyers profile, and Quarles & Brady attorney bio. Some of the more detailed practice claims come from the Quarles bio and are attributed as such.