J. David Ellett, Jr. Of Counsel P: 212 813-1600 F: 212 813-9600 E: dellett@creativity-law.com Practice Areas Patent, Trade Secret, Copyright, Litigation and Licensing Science and Technology Expertise Chemistry, Computer Software and Hardware Engineering, Materials Science AV Peer Rated

David joined a predecessor of the Kalow & Springut firm in 1993. David practices primarily in the areas of patent law, trade-secret law, copyright law as applied to computer software, and technology licensing, concentrating in high technology fields generally, including chemistry, materials science, and computer and software engineering. David has over 20 years of experience as an intellectual property attorney.

David has prepared and prosecuted a diverse variety of patent applications, including applications for computer image processing methods; imaging hardware, such as video image displays for computer graphics workstations; data compression processors and methods; superconductivity technology; isotope enrichment methods; organic polymers; microbiologically produced food flavorants; beverage-can case-loading machines; ultrasonic instrumentation; digital-computer architecture, circuits, and processing methods; methods of doing business involving the Internet; and magnetic resonance imaging techniques. David has also provided litigation support for patent infringement litigation and litigation involving disputed research and development agreements. David has counseled clients with respect to negotiating licensing agreements for copyrighted computer-program source code and with respect to intellectual property rights in joint research arrangements.

David previously worked as a patent attorney for IBM and was associated with Pennie & Edmonds in New York City. As a Research Chemist at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory in Berkeley, California, David conducted research in pulsed nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy. David helped design and build a pulsed nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometer for magnetic-resonance spectroscopy of solids as a graduate student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

David earned a Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1970, and a Bachelor of Science in Chemistry from Davidson College in North Carolina, from where he graduated cum laude in 1966 and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. David has a Juris Doctor from Fordham University School of Law, 1977.

David is a member of the Bar of the State of New York and is admitted to practice in the United States District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, and the United States Patent and Trademark Office.