David A Bell

As chair of our Trademark Practice Group, David Bell advises multinational corporations and emerging companies, providing knowledgeable and creative counseling and protection for their brands.

Clients turns to David to build and enforce trademark applications and other intangible assets worldwide. This includes through litigation, Trademark Trial and Appeal Board proceedings, foreign legal proceedings, and administrative domain name proceedings. He also has extensive experience with international and complex trademark clearance searches. With a robust depth of trade dress knowledge, David clears and protects designs for products, packaging, and service businesses, including for footwear, apparel, foods and beverages, cosmetics, and restaurants.

Ranked in the gold tier of trademark lawyers in Texas in World Trademark Review’s WTR 1000 (Law Business Research), David’s clients tout him as “a reliable source of trademark wisdom who is responsive to the ever-changing requirements of his clients” (2019). Clients also describe David as being "incredibly dedicated and always prepared to go the extra mile to assist" (2017) and note his “work capacity is remarkable, and he always delivers top-quality advice and outcomes” (2018).

David founded the firm's Social Media Practice Group, one of the first interdisciplinary practices in the field. He is regularly asked to speak and write on an array of intellectual property topics and has more than 50 speeches and published works to his name.