David Golub is a senior counsel and intellectual property lawyer with Foley & Lardner LLP, where he counsels clients to identify and protect their intellectual property rights and to minimize and control intellectual property risks. He is a registered patent attorney and a member of the firm’s Mechanical & Electromechanical Technologies Practice, Business Method & Software Patents Practice, and Innovative Technology and Health Care & Life Sciences Sectors. David’s practice focuses on patent counseling, including drafting and prosecuting U.S. and foreign patent applications to obtain patents, managing patent portfolios, and assessing patent infringement risks. David provides patentability opinions on new technologies and products, freedom-to-operate opinions, and invalidity and noninfringement opinions on competitor patents, as well as counsel on designing around competitor patents. He also assists clients with patent enforcement strategies, intellectual property agreements, intellectual property merger and acquisition due diligence, and other intellectual property counseling. David serves clients ranging from startups to Fortune 500 companies.