David Suter

David Suter is Principal at Harness IP. With more than four decades of experience in intellectual property law, David brings a wealth of expertise to his work with individual, corporate, and university clients. David implements complex legal strategies in a variety of industries, including pharmaceuticals, consumer products, medical devices, and green technologies. His experience includes patent portfolio management, risk avoidance (including infringement and invalidity opinions), and trade secret management. David also negotiates and drafts complex IP agreements and advises on the IP due diligence aspects of M&As, having led IP due diligence investigations in the automotive, telecommunications, resource recovery, energy, consumer products, pharmaceutical, and medical device industries.

David offers extensive experience in the chemical, molecular biological, and mechanical fields. His abilities range from organic chemistry, pharmaceutical formulations, treatment regimens, biologics, diagnostics, and plants; to oral and personal care products, food technologies, nutritionals, and functional foods; to polymer chemistry, ceramics, electrochemistry, battery technology, hydrocarbon reformation, and optical materials.