David W. Carrithers, Attorney

Registered Patent Attorney specializing in patent, trademark, trade secrets, copyright law, and unfair competition matters serving clients throughout the United States and in foreign countries.

Serving as In-house Intellectual Property Counsel assisting General Counsel in managing the intellectual property portfolios for their companies.

Serving as special advisor and/or co-counsel for general practice trial attorneys in litigation concerning intellectual property matters.

Mr. Carrithers is a registered patent attorney licensed to practice before the United States Patent & Trademark Office and admitted to practice law in the Commonwealth of Kentucky and the federal U.S. District Courts of Kentucky.   He specializes in Intellectual Property Law which includes patent, trademark, trade secrets, copyright law, and unfair competition law in the United States and foreign countries.   In addition to preparation and filing of patents, copyrights, and trademarks, the practice includes patent and trademark search opinions, infringement opinions, validity and invalidity opinions, licenses, cease and desist letters, oppositions before the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, litigation matters, assistance in designing around valid patents and avoiding infringement, conducting due diligence investigations for acquisitions and mergers, serving as In-house Intellectual Property Counsel and managing the intellectual property portfolios for companies which do not have their own patent attorney, and serving as special advisor and/or co-counsel for general practice trial attorneys in litigation concerning intellectual property matters.

Prior to the practice law, David worked for several years in the field of industrial chemical engineering in product and process development.  His industrial experience includes experience as:
 Process Development Engineer providing technical service to customers and technical support of manufacturing operations in the formulation, extrusion, and processing operation for the plastics compounding operations of  B.F. Goodrich;
 
Production and  Research & Development Engineer for Joseph E. Seagram & Sons specializing in new product and process development of alcohol and distillery by-products, and beverages  in the wine, beer, spirits, nonalcoholic beverage  industry via  fermentation, distillation, freeze concentration, separation, filtration and ultra filtration, selective distillation and separation and flavor preservation processes for heat sensitive products, and  biochemical processes for the food and beverage industry with Joseph E. Seagram and Sons; and

Research and Development Engineer Hi Ten Polymers/Rhone-Poulenc in the water soluble polymers.