Donald C. Schultz

Donald C. Schultz is an attorney at Crenshaw, Ware & Martin, where he joined in 1993 and chairs the firm's Commercial Bankruptcy and Creditor's Rights Practice Group. While his primary practice areas include commercial real estate finance, civil litigation, construction law, eminent domain, and business bankruptcy and creditors' rights, his firm also provides local and co-counsel services for intellectual property litigation in the Eastern District of Virginia. His experience in patent matters is primarily in this local counsel capacity.

His sole tracked patent litigation appearance was as local counsel for the plaintiff in I/P Engine, Inc. v. AOL, Inc. et al.. This case involved patents related to systems for displaying advertisements on web pages, broadly falling under software/internet technology. Although a jury initially returned a verdict finding infringement and the district court entered judgment in I/P Engine's favor, the Federal Circuit later reversed this judgment.

While Crenshaw, Ware & Martin's intellectual property practice handles motions to stay pending IPR or CBM review and was counsel in a case stayed following Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank International, specific details regarding Mr. Schultz's individual direct involvement or regular appearances in PTAB/IPR proceedings are not readily available in public records.

Mr. Schultz was admitted to the Virginia State Bar in 1989. He earned his J.D. from Washington & Lee University School of Law in 1989 and a B.A. in History from the University of Virginia in 1986.