Dawn Marie David

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Professional summary — Dawn Marie David (Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan)

Practice focus. The only tracked appearance is defense-side patent work in Security First Innovations, LLC v. Google LLC, No. 2:23-cv-00097 (E.D. Va.), where she entered pro hac vice for Google in April 2023. The asserted patents (including the '854, '609, and '140 patents) claim methods for securing data — splitting a data set into chunks, encrypting each chunk with a distinct key, performing a further cryptographic operation with an external key, and storing chunks with key data across multiple storage devices. SFI accused Google Cloud Storage's "Encryption At-Rest" functionality and Google Drive. So the verifiable technical center of her tracked work is software/cloud data security and encryption, not Wi-Fi standards or life sciences. Law360's Quinn Emanuel listing for "Dawn M. David" also shows two non-Google matters — Via Transportation, Inc. v. RideCo Inc. (W.D. Tex. 2021, patent) and McCraw v. Truvision Health (D. Utah 2019, contract) — but I found no published practice description tying her to specific technology areas beyond those case titles.

Side preference. On the tracked data she is exclusively defense-side: one appearance, for an operating company (Google), with zero plaintiff-side appearances. That is a single-data-point sample and does not establish a plaintiff/defendant preference, nor is there any indication of NPE/PAE-side assertion work. She is listed in the adjudicated role of of counsel, not partner or associate, in that matter.

Firm and case team. Her tracked firm is Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, whose patent practice Chambers USA ranks in Band 1 for complex hi-tech infringement disputes, including standard-essential and design patents, with PTAB, ITC, and Federal Circuit capability. In the Google matter she appeared alongside Quinn Emanuel colleagues David A. Perlson, David A. Nelson, Deepa Acharya, Hannah E. Dawson, Kevin Hardy, and Nicholas Caspers, with Sullivan & Cromwell also on the Google defense team and local counsel Stephen E. Noona in Norfolk. I found no verifiable record of prior firms or in-house employment.

Notable matter and IPR posture. Security First Innovations v. Google is the sole tracked case and the only one with an outcome I could verify. Google briefed a § 101 motion to dismiss (the court treated it as directed to the amended complaint and issued an opinion on it in late 2023), while the parties litigated parallel inter partes reviews; the district court stayed the case pending the PTAB's determination, and on December 10, 2024 Judge Jamar K. Walker denied SFI's motion to lift the stay and reopen as to the '140 patent, directing the parties to report the PTAB's final determination. The docket is recorded as closed/disposed. I could not confirm from the sources reviewed whether David personally appeared in the IPR proceedings or how the § 101 motion was ultimately resolved, and I found no verdicts, Federal Circuit opinions, or publicly reported settlements attributable to her.

Bar and education — not reliably confirmed. Directory material conflicts on details. Law360 lists the "Dawn M. David" profile with the Google case as Los Angeles–based, while a Utah directory profile for a "Dawn David" at Quinn Emanuel's Salt Lake City office (Super Lawyers; IP litigation; Rising Stars 2022–2023) reports a 2013 J.D. from The John Marshall Law School and practice admission in 2013 with Utah licensure since 2016. Multiple attorneys named Dawn David practice at Quinn Emanuel, so I cannot confirm that the Utah/admissions information belongs to the Dawn Marie David who appeared for Google; bar admissions and education are therefore omitted as unverified.