Honors and Awards:

• Achieved the Martindale-Hubbell BV® Peer Review Rating. The BV is the highest rating a lawyer can receive who has been admitted to the bar for the number of years Daniel has.  While at Marquette University Law School, Dan received numerous academic excellence awards, and clerked for the Honorable Marianne Becker, and served as an intern clerk for the Honorable John L. Coffey of the United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Special Licenses/Certifications:

• Admitted to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office

Scholarly Lectures and Writings:

• Assisted in drafting portions of a textbook regarding international intellectual property law.  Wisconsin Association of County Corporation Counsel, April, 2007,  Electronic Open Records Requests.  Wisconsin State Bar Association, Intellectual Property Section, The Third Door County Intellectual Property Academy, July 2008, Copyrights--WireData v. Village of Sussex. 

Verdicts and Settlements:

• Brassica Protection Products LLC v. Sunrise Farms, (In Re Cruciferous Sprout Litigation) 301 F.3d 1343 (Fed. Cir. 2002), reh'g denied by, reh'g, en banc, denied by In re Cruciferous Sprout Litig. v. Sunrise Farms, 2002 U.S. App LEXIS 22195 (Fed.Cir., Sept. 30, 2002), Cert. denied Brassica Prot. Prod. LLC v. Sunrise Farms, 2003 U.S. LEXIS 2004 (U.S. Mar. 10, 2003) (represented prevailing sprout farmers against claims of patent infringement, case resulted in claims of the patent in suit being invalidated by both the trial court, and affirmed by the Federal Circuit); Panduit Corp. v. HellermannTyton Corp., 451 F.3d 819 (Fed.Cir. 2006) (represented Defendant against claims of patent infringement, all claims of patent infringement were dismissed by the trial court, a ruling affirmed on appeal in the Federal Circuit); Rubber Stamp Mgmt. v. Kalmbach Publ'g Co., 2007 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 33367, 2007 WL 13677 (D. Wash. 2007) (represented Defendant publishing company, who was granted summary judgment against Plaintiff's claims of trademark infringement; case voluntarily dismissed by Plaintiff immediately thereafter); WIREdata Inc. v. Village of Sussex, --- N.W.2d ----, 2008 WI 69 (Wis. 2008) (represented prevailing software company and assessor against an open records request seeking database produced by copyrighted computer program).

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Educational Background:

• University of Wisconsin, B.S.G.L.E., 1994; B.S.G.&G., 1994; Marquette University, J.D., 1999; Certified Hydrogeologist, State of Wisconsin, 1994