Daniel Shores
is a dedicated patent lawyer and strategist who believes in his clients and the power of their ideas. He primarily focuses on serving biotech, energy, software, cybersecurity, and other technology-based companies, particularly during their early stages when strategic guidance is critical to long term success. Dan understands the myriad of challenges that emerging companies face when breaking through and establishing themselves in their sphere, and he works with clients to build robust patent portfolios, forge constructive relationships with strategic partners, and prepare for success in funding rounds and exits. An engineer by education, and having extensive experience in transactional, litigation, procurement, and strategic counseling matters for technology-based companies, Dan is a problem-solver who excels at deciphering key translational aspects of a broad array of technologies and maximizing leverage in the context of clients’ desired implementation of such technologies, whether as participants in dynamic markets or as first movers.
As Pfizer and BioNTech announced this week that results of their COVID-19 vaccine have exceeded expectations, the technology behind the vaccine (messenger RNA, or mRNA) has taken …