Robert Dan Spendlove

Robert's practice focuses on providing clients with effective and efficient representation across a broad range of intellectual property matters with particular emphasis on patent licensing, litigation and post grant proceedings. He regularly counsels his clients regarding strategic intellectual property planning, licensing and technology transactions, new product development, risk assessment, and infringement by competitors. Robert makes it a point to understand his clients' business and competitive pressures, and his combination of industry and legal experience allows him to consistently provide balanced and useful advice. 

Prior to working with Dunlap Bennett & Ludwig PLLC, Robert spent time in the intellectual property group at a large multinational general practice firm. Robert has held the following positions:

Past employment positions:

• Cooley, LLP
• Goodwin Procter, LLP

Robert earned a JD summa cum laude from George Mason University School of Law. While attending law school, he received the Giles Sutherland Rich Award for excellence in the study of intellectual property law, was a finalist at the Oxford International Intellectual Property Moot Court and served as an editor for the George Mason Law Review.

Robert received a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Utah State University and, before entering law school, worked as an engineer and project manager in the medical device and automotive industries. He also lived for nearly two years in Brazil and is proficient in Portuguese.

Robert is admitted to practice in the Commonwealth of Virginia and the District of Columbia as well as U.S. District Courts for the Eastern District of Virginia and the Eastern District of Texas. He is registered to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

Some of Robert's past experience include:

• Counseling clients on a wide variety of intellectual property matters, including patent development and portfolio management, joint research agreements and intellectual property licensing, and mergers and acquisitions.
• Directing both offensive and defensive patent litigation.
• Researching and preparing opinions relating to freedom to practice, patentability, invalidity, infringement, and other legal questions.
• Drafting and prosecuting patent applications in a broad range of technologies both domsetically and internationally.
• Conducting reexamination and inter partes review proceedings, both offensively and defensively.
• Extensive experience in a broad range of industries, including medical devices, consumer electronics, telecommunication, absorbent articles, power tools, injection molding, automotive polymers and robotics.

Outside his legal practice, Robert is an avid motorcyclist, a licensed amateur radio operator (ham) and enjoys camping in the back country with his family.