
Partner at Holland & Knight LLP
Greater Chicago Area

Partner at Holland & Knight LLP
Greater Chicago Area
R. David Donoghue is a technology litigator with a particular focus on patent disputes. He is also the creator and author of the Chicago IP Litigation Blog. He practices in Chicago as a partner with Holland & Knight LLP. More specifically, Mr. Donoghue is actively involved in both asserting and protecting his client's intellectual property assets. He also has extensive intellectual property licensing experience.
Before joining Holland & Knight, Mr. Donoghue was counsel to Delphi, the world's largest automotive supplier, where he was a founding member of Delphi's Technology Licensing and Litigation group and handled substantial international intellectual property litigation and licensing matters.
Mr. Donoghue served as an Adjunct Professor at the Loyola University Chicago School of Law, teaching Legal Research and Writing and IP survey courses. And at the beginning of his legal career, Mr. Donoghue served as a law clerk to the Honorable Gordon J. Quist, Federal District Judge for the Western District of Michigan.
Court Admissions
State Bars of California, Illinois and Michigan
United States Patent and Trademark Office
United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
United States District Court for the Western District of Michigan
United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
United States District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin
Publications
Conflicts of Interest: Concurrent Representation, 11 GEO. J. LEGAL ETHICS 319 (1998)
"I Will Not Sit Idly By While My Future is Determined:" The Response of the University of Michigan Black Law Students' Alliance to Grutter v. Bollinger, et al., 8 MICH. J. GENDER & L. 101 (2002)
(Partnership; 1001-5000 employees; Law Practice industry)
November 2008 — Present (1 year 1 month)
1996 — 1999
BSE , Aerospace Engineering , 1992 — 1996
1992 — 1992