David lectures in patent and copyright law and integrated circuit legislation for both the University of Melbourne and Monash University. He has worked as in-house counsel in London, and presented seminars to the Australian Patent Office on business system patents.  He is also regularly invited to speak to the business and legal community on computer software protection and e-commerce issues and contributes to a number of intellectual property journals.  He is currently a member of the Australian Government's Professional Standards Board for Patent and Trade Mark Attorneys.

Qualifications and Memberships

• Bachelor of Laws, Monash University
• Bachelor of Engineering (Electrical & Electronic)(Hons.), University of Adelaide
• Registered Patent Attorney (Australia and New Zealand)
• Admitted: Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Victoria
• Fellow: Institute of Patent and Trade Mark Attorneys of Australia
• Member: Professional Standards Board for Patent and Trade Mark Attorneys
• Member: International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property
• Member: Asian Patent Attorneys Association (Australian representative on copyright committee)
• Member: US & UK Computer Law Associations
• Member: Victorian Society for Computers and the Law
• Member: Intellectual Property Society of Australia and New Zealand
• Member: Australian Computer Society
• Member: Association for Computer Machinery
• Member: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers