David A. Segal is a partner in the Orange County office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP.  He is a member of the firm's Antitrust, Intellectual Property and Technology Practice Groups.  He advises clients on litigation and transactional matters in antitrust, copyright, patent, trademark and trade secret law, and has substantial jury trial and arbitration experience.

Representative matters on which Mr. Segal worked include:

• prosecuted and defended patent infringement actions involving products and methods covering paving, medical devices, cable Internet and voice over IP, computers and computer software, LCD televisions, medical device, video games and golf clubs;
• advised clients concerning unfair competition, antitrust and intellectual property issues in numerous corporate transactions, corporate mergers and negotiated related agreements;
• defended antitrust claims arising out of enforcement of intellectual property rights through summary judgment motion and trial;
• advised clients concerning advertising campaigns, including potential false advertising issues;
• prosecuted and defended actions involving trademark, trade dress and copyright disputes;
• counseled clients on Internet, data breach and related privacy issues; and
• counseled and defended clients in commercial business disputes, including software implementation disputes and high technology component supply issues.

Representative clients of the firm for whom Mr. Segal has worked include Allergan, Dow Chemical, Edwards Life Sciences, Electronic Arts, Emulex, Honeywell, Hewlett-Packard Company, Intel, IBM, Quidel Corporation, St. Jude Medical and Sharp Electronics.

Mr. Segal has been an invited speaker at several national and client conferences and teleconferences on current issues in patent law.

Mr. Segal was selected by the Southern California legal community for the 2009 and 2010 editions of The Best Lawyers in America in the specialty of Intellectual Property Law.

Mr. Segal earned his law degree magna cum laude in 1992 from Fordham University School of Law, where he was a member of the Order of the Coif and served as the Annual Survey Editor of the Fordham Law Review.  He received a Bachelors of Science degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1989, with a concentration in economics.

Prior to joining the firm in 1993, Mr. Segal clerked for the late Honorable J. Daniel Mahoney of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.  Mr. Segal is admitted to practice in the State Courts of California and New York, California federal courts, the Eastern District of Texas, and the Court of Appeals for the Ninth and Federal Circuits and the Supreme Court of the United States.  Prior to pursuing his law degree, Mr. Segal programmed customized business software and was a computer software and systems design consultant.