Daniel Cohn

With incisive analytical skill and a business focus, Dan helps clients understand how intellectual property (IP) protections can help them achieve their business goals.

Dan focuses his practice on patents, trademarks and copyrights, as well as advertising, marketing and e-commerce. He combines an electrical engineering and mathematics background, legal skills and a competitive spirit with strong business experience developed during multiple secondments to major multinational companies.

Dan has repeatedly been brought on board for months at a time by clients to serve as temporary full-time in-house IP counsel. His in-house secondment experience includes overseeing a multibillion dollar international IP portfolio for a major brewing company and managing extensive internal IP teams. Dan’s time in-house has given him an up-close view of the internal pressures faced by clients, and he personally understands the balance in-house counsel must strike by meeting both legal needs and business goals. Sitting on “the other side of the table” from outside counsel, Dan gained invaluable insight and perspective for how to make clients’ lives easier.

As a patent attorney registered with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, Dan drafts and prosecutes electrical, mechanical, internet-based and business method patent applications for large corporations and research laboratories. He has substantial experience in post-issuance proceedings, including as lead counsel in the first two post-grant reviews ever to be instituted, and provides IP litigation support in patent, trademark, trade dress, trade secret and unfair competition lawsuits. Dan also prosecutes foreign and domestic trademark applications and enforces trademark rights for multinational corporations, including proceedings against domain-name cybersquatters.

Experienced with the National Advertising Division of the Better Business Bureau, Dan helps clients with mobile and digital applications used in social media for marketing or other purposes. He also holds a professional certificate in Blockchain Fundamentals.

Dan serves as the chair of the firm’s IP practice group.

The Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis

The Missouri Bar

Patent Trial and Appeal Board Bar Association, Young Lawyers Committee