David Alban focuses his practice on intellectual property analysis and litigation and has a broad range of experience litigating complex patent and trade secret disputes, particularly in the software and electronics industries. Mr. Alban has litigated cases in multiple venues, including Texas, Delaware, California and Missouri. His cases have involved technologies such as surgical lasers, semiconductor processing, design automation software, file management software, digital jukeboxes, flash memory, digital televisions, LEDs and semiconductor lasers.

Mr. Alban received his J.D. from the University of California at Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall) in 2005, where he served as an editor for the California Law Review as well as the Berkeley Technology Law Journal. With a focus on intellectual property and technology law, Mr. Alban earned Boalt’s Certificate in Law and Technology and served as a fellow at the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology. Mr. Alban served as a judicial extern to the Honorable Saundra Brown Armstrong of the Northern District of California and as a volunteer counselor at the East Bay Community Law Center’s Workers’ Rights Clinic.

David Alban focuses his practice on intellectual property analysis and litigation and has a broad range of experience litigating complex patent and trade secret disputes, particularly in the software and electronics industries. Mr. Alban has litigated cases in multiple venues, including Texas, Delaware, California and Missouri. His cases have involved technologies such as surgical lasers, semiconductor processing, design automation software, file management software, digital jukeboxes, flash memory, digital televisions, LEDs and semiconductor lasers.

Mr. Alban received his J.D. from the University of California at Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall) in 2005, where he served as an editor for the California Law Review as well as the Berkeley Technology Law Journal. With a focus on intellectual property and technology law, Mr. Alban earned Boalt’s Certificate in Law and Technology and served as a fellow at the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology. Mr. Alban served as a judicial extern to the Honorable Saundra Brown Armstrong of the Northern District of California and as a volunteer counselor at the East Bay Community Law Center’s Workers’ Rights Clinic.

Mr. Alban holds a B.A. in computer science and physics from the University of Montana; he graduated with high honors, was a member of the Sigma Pi Sigma and Phi Kappa Phi Honor Societies, and was selected as an Outstanding Computer Science/Physics Student.

Mr. Alban performed undergraduate research in plasma physics, specifically the feasibility of designs for a quasi-omnigeneous stellerator, a machine used to produce and contain high energy plasmas. He presented “Optimizing a Compact Stellarator for Higher Beta and Lower Current” at the 41st Annual Meeting of the American Physical Society Division of Plasma Physics in Seattle, Washington.

Mr. Alban is admitted to practice in North Carolina and California, as well as before the United States Patent and Trademark Office and the Federal District Courts for the Northern District of California and the Eastern District of Texas.