Dan Callaway, Partner at Farella Braun + Martel

Today, my guest is Dan Callaway, a Partner at Farella Braun + Martel who has represented numerous companies in all aspects of patent litigation, including patent and portfolio analysis, complex discovery, depositions, expert and witness preparation, pleading and motion practice, Markman proceedings, PTAB trials, courtroom argument and trial work. Prior to attending law school, Dan obtained a master’s degree in electrical engineering, and spent four years working as an engineer at a startup semiconductor company where he designed hardware, wrote and debugged source code, and drew great satisfaction from bringing new chips from the lab into full production.

As a result of his hands-on engineering experience, Dan is particularly effective at working on technical subject matters and with clients who are engineers. Dan is the inventor of U.S. Patent No. 6,794,568, a device for detecting musical gestures using collimated light. Dan holds a JD from UC College of Law San Francisco and a MS/BS in EE from Johns Hopkins University.