Overview

Both a highly creative patent prosecutor and a trusted counselor, David Jordan helps his clients build and maximize their patent portfolios and provides sound business advice on navigating complex legal situations that span multiple areas of law. 

David’s practice is marked by a genuine passion for his clients’ success. Noted for his plain-speaking and direct personal style, he works to cultivate an understanding of his clients' industries and business needs, and to provide advice that helps them achieve their goals. David incorporates a unique, broad knowledge of adjacent areas of law — such as employment, bankruptcy, insurance, and contract law — into his patent counsel. Understanding that his clients have business concerns that may relate primarily to patent prosecution but extend into other areas of law, David is able to provide holistic advice that helps them proactively avoid unforeseen issues.  

Working with clients that range from single-patent startups to large corporations, David has experience with and an encyclopedic knowledge of wide-ranging technologies, from computer software, data analytics, and e-commerce to sustainable agriculture and renewable fuels. He is renowned for his ability to harvest valuable and viable inventions from technical disclosures that are highly complex, weak or unfocused, or rooted in subject matter that is disfavored by global patent offices. He has helped secure thousands of issued U.S. patents. 

Before joining Fish, David received his commission as an officer in the U.S. Navy and served in Japan as an aircraft maintenance officer. He studied law as an evening student at the University of San Diego while working full time as a naval officer at the naval air station in Coronado, California. While in law school, David was a judicial extern for the Honorable James F. Stiven, now retired, of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California. 

Pro bono activities

In his pro bono practice, David has represented disabled veterans in their appeals at the U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims, and he manages prosecution of a substantial number of pro bono patent applications referred to him through California Lawyers for the Arts and the Federal Circuit Bar Association.