Member
Philadelphia Office
Tel: 267.414.1305
Fax: 215.567.2648
DCherry
@FeldmanGale.com
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EDUCATION
- JD, Temple University School of Law, 1991
- MS, Drexel University, 1986
- BS, Drexel University, 1983; Dean’s List
BAR/COURT ADMISSIONS
- United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
- Pennsylvania Supreme Court
- New Jersey Supreme Court
- United States Patent and Trademark Office
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DAVID A. CHERRY is a Registered Patent Attorney with extensive experience in patent law. Mr. Cherry focuses his practice on patent procurement and other complex matters before the United States and foreign patent offices, including reexaminations, reissues, oppositions, public protests, due diligence studies, technology in-licensing, IPO's, stock and bond offerings, acquisitions and divestitures. Mr. Cherry is also proficient in drafting opinions of counsel, including infringement, validity and patentability opinions, conducting freedom to operate and state of the art searches and analyses, global patent strategies, licensing and confidentiality, material transfer and other agreement work, litigation support and general client counseling on patent and related matters. Mr. Cherry has represented clients in the United States and worldwide, including individual inventors, start-up, mid-size and Fortune 100 companies, as well as universities and non-profit organizations. He has argued cases before the United States Patent and Trademark Office and The Hague.
Mr. Cherry began his legal career as a Scientific Advisor for a Philadelphia IP boutique firm while he was attending Temple University School of Law. During law school, Mr. Cherry was an Associate Editor of the Temple Environmental Law and Technology Journal. He later joined Philadelphia’s oldest intellectual property law firm as an Associate Attorney where he was responsible for drafting and prosecuting foreign and domestic patent applications, and conducting patentability and infringement assessments. Mr. Cherry then moved to Philadelphia’s largest intellectual property law firm, first as an Associate Attorney and then as a Partner. Throughout his career, Mr. Cherry has worked in a wide range of technical fields including pharmaceuticals, diagnostic contrast agents, organic, inorganic and polymer chemistry, chemical process technologies, lipid chemistry, protein and peptide chemistry, chemical additives, electrochemistry, natural products chemistry, food sciences, surface sciences, metallurgical sciences, catalysts, fibers, textiles, lithography, cosmetics, medical devices, mechanical inventions and business methods, including risk management programs for prescribing and distributing pharmaceutical products.
Prior to beginning his legal career, Mr. Cherry worked as a synthetic organic chemist in medicinal and process research chemistry for McNeil Pharmaceuticals. While at McNeil, Mr. Cherry invented a process and authored a paper relating to the synthesis of antihypertensive drug candidates. Mr. Cherry holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Chemistry and a Master of Science Degree in Organic Chemistry from Drexel University.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
- Member, Feldman Gale, P.A. (2008 to Present)
- Partner, Woodcock Washburn, LLP (2000 to 2008)
- Associate, Woodcock Washburn, LLP (1994 to 1999)
- Associate, Synnestvedt & Lechner, LLP (1991 to 1994)
- Scientific Advisor, Panitch, Schwarze, Jacobs & Nadel, P.C. (1989 to 1991)
TECHNICAL EXPERIENCE
- Process Research Chemist, McNeil Pharmaceuticals (1985 to 1988)
- Medicinal Chemist, McNeil Pharmaceuticals (1983 to 1985)
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
- American Bar Association
- Pennsylvania Bar Association
- American Intellectual Property Law Association
- Philadelphia Intellectual Property Law Association
- American Chemical Society
PUBLICATIONS
- Cherry et al., “Process for Producing 1-(5-Substituted-2-Ethynylphenyl)-2-Propanones,” U.S. Patent No. 4,798,893, 1989.
- “Ligand Assisted Nucleophilic Additions. Control of Site and Face Attack of Nucleophiles on 4-Oxidoenones,” Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1988, 110, 3702-3704.
- Associate Editor, Temple Environmental Law and Technology Journal, 1991
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