David J Dykeman

Practice Areas

Intellectual Property & Technology

Life Sciences & Medical Technology

Intellectual Property Litigation

Emerging Technology

Education

Patent Prosecution

Pharmaceutical, Medical Device & Health Care

Career

David Dykeman, who serves as Co-Managing Shareholder of Greenberg Traurig's Boston office and co-chairs the firm's global Life Sciences & Medical Technology Group, is a registered patent attorney with 25 years of experience in patent and intellectual property law. David's practice focuses on securing worldwide intellectual property protection and related business strategy for high tech clients, with particular experience in life sciences, medical devices, robotics, materials, and information technology.

David provides strategic patent portfolio development and intellectual property advice for clients including major research institutions, multi-national corporations, and start-up companies. He also performs patent due diligence to assess patent portfolios for venture capital investment, mergers and acquisitions, and licensing opportunities.

An author of over 55 articles and a speaker at over 50 conferences on intellectual property law, David is the founding co-chair of the ABA’s Medical Devices Committee. In 2022, LMG Life Sciences named him the Patent Strategy Attorney of the Year for Massachusetts. He was honored as one of Boston's "40 Under 40" innovative business leaders by the Boston Business Journal and was named to the "40 Medtech Innovators Under 40" list by Medical Device & Diagnostic Industry (MD+DI) Magazine. David has also been named one of the top 250 Patent and Technology Licensing Practitioners in the world by Intellectual Asset Management (IAM) Magazine, an "IP Star" by Managing IP magazine, a "Life Science Star" by LMG Life Sciences, one of the World's Leading IP Strategists in the IAM 300, and ranked in Chambers.

Concentrations:

Intellectual property

Patent prosecution and opinions

Licensing

IP due diligence

Trademarks and unfair competition

Copyrights

Professional Memberships

-Founding Co-Chair, American Bar Association (ABA) Medical Device Committee

-Editorial Advisory Board, Medical Device & Diagnostic Industry (MD+DI) Magazine

-Board Member, Massachusetts Medical Device Industry Council (MassMEDIC), Board of Directors

-Chair, Healthcare Innovations Network (HIN)

-Contributing Editor, The Journal of BioLaw & Business

-Judge, MedTECH IGNITE Innovative Technology Competition

-Member, Massachusetts Life Sciences Collaborative Research, Innovation and Commercialization Task Force

-Member, American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA)

-Member, City Year, Legal Leadership Committee

-Member, Licensing Executives Society (LES)

-Member, American Bar Association, Science & Technology Law Section Council

-Board Member, United Jewish Communities, National Young Leadership Cabinet, 2007-2013

Publications

Listed, Chambers USA Guide, 2020-2022

Personal

J.D., University of Wisconsin Law School

B.S., Mechanical Engineering, Cornell University