property law

ROSS A. DANNENBERG
Attorney
Ross Dannenberg handles a wide-range of intellectual property issues,
with experience in Internet, video game, telecommunications, and
computer software-related issues. With a background in computer
science, Ross has prepared and prosecuted hundreds of patent
applications in a variety of technical fields, and has been involved in
numerous patent, copyright, and trademark enforcement lawsuits. He has
considerable experience with intellectual property protection of video
games, including patent, trademark and copyright protection, copyright
clearance, licensing, and enforcement of intellectual property rights.

Mr. Dannenberg earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Computer
Science from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1994, and earned his private pilot’s license in 1999.
Between his undergraduate studies and law school, Mr. Dannenberg was an Information Systems
Manager for Carnival Cruise Lines, where he was responsible for all facets of computer and network
use, training, and administration aboard a cruise ship. He earned his Juris Doctor from The George
Washington University Law School in 2000, where he was a member of The Environmental Lawyer
legal journal.

Mr. Dannenberg is a founding member of the Video Game Bar Association, and was the founding Chair
of the American Bar Association's (ABA) IP Section Committee on Computer Games and Virtual
Worlds. Mr. Dannenberg is the Editor-in-Chief of the Patent Arcade website, is the editor and an author
of The American Bar Association’s Legal Guide to Video Game Production, published by the ABA in
2011, and is an executive editor of Computer Games and Virtual Worlds: A New Frontier in Intellectual
Property Law, published by the ABA IP Section in 2010. Mr. Dannenberg is a Lifetime Fellow of the
American Bar Foundation, and is an adjunct copyrights professor at George Mason University School of
Law.

Mr. Dannenberg was named to Washington D.C. Super Lawyers in 2013 and 2014, and Managing
Intellectual Property's IP Stars in 2013.

Mr. Dannenberg's representative clients include multinational software, networking, and
telecommunications companies, multiple video game companies having user bases of over 20 million
users, video game developers and publishers of various sizes, and emerging technology companies.

Mr. Dannenberg practices in the firm's Washington, D.C. office.

Office

1100 13th Street, NW

Suite 1200

Washington, DC 20005-4051

T 202.824.3000

F 202.824.3001

[email protected]

Education

B.S. 1994, Georgia Institute of

Technology

J.D. 2000, George Washington

University

Bar Admissions

2000, Virginia

2001, District of Columbia

Court Admissions

Supreme Court of Virginia

U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the

Federal Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth

Circuit

U.S. District Court for the Eastern

District of Virginia

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

Practice Areas

Copyright

Design Patents

Litigation

Patent Prosecution

Trademarks

Industries

Electrical & Computer Technologies

Internet, E-Commerce & Business

Methods

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