David Weild III, a Partner in the New York office, has over 50 years experience in the recognition, preservation, creation, administration, exploitation and enforcement of intellectual property in domestic as well as international commerce. He was head of the International Trademark Copyright and Competition group at the former Pennie & Edmonds - one of the largest US IP boutique firms - where, early in his career, he headed its Foreign Department and oversaw the development, filing, maintenance, exploitation and enforcement of large portfolios of patents, designs and trademarks for clients in diverse businesses, including tobacco, beverages, industrial chemicals, pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, clothing, window fashions fasteners, solid mineral extraction, jewelry, sports equipment and retailing, transportation and storage services.
Mr. Weild has overseen transactions and participated in litigation not only in the United States, but also in foreign jurisdictions, and has appeared as co-counsel in the former Exchequer Court of Canada and before the Commission of the European Communities. He additionally has supervised litigations in Italy, China, Germany, Japan, Mexico, the Netherlands, Belgium, Brazil, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Switzerland and India, among other jurisdictions.
He is admitted to practice at the US Patent and Trademark Office, and is registered at the comparable Canadian and Philippines offices. Mr. Weild is a member of and has held positions in various professional organizations, including the International Trademark Association, the New York Intellectual Property Law Association, the International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property, the Licensing Executives Society, the Chartered Institute of Patent Agents and is a Member of the Institute of Trademark Attorneys. He assisted in the re-establishment of cooperative intellectual property relations with the People's Republic of China and lectured in China under the auspices of its then Ministry of Foreign Economic Relations and Trade and the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade (CCPIT).
He is an honors graduate of Brooklyn Technical High School, Yale University and the Yale Law School, from which he received his LLB degree in 1959 and was awarded the Ambrose Gherini Prize in International Jurisprudence. From 1953 through 1956, Mr. Weild was on active duty with the U.S. Army, including duty in Berlin, Germany. He is rated AV Preeminent by Martindale-Hubbell.
Recent Speaking Engagements and Publications
· "Curbing the Copyists," co-author, World Trademark Review, Issue 28, December/January 2011.
· "Who Owns 'Budweiser', 'Chablis' and the 'Swiss Army Knife'? Use and Misuse of Geographical Indications in the (North) American Hemisphere," panelist, LES USA & Canada 2009 Annual Meeting,San Francisco, California, October 18-21, 2009.
· "Dilution/Anti-Dilution Where Are We Going?" co-author with Isabel Davies, PTMG 2003.
· "Chinese Enforcement Efforts May Protect IP," co-author with Hailing Zhang, National Law Journal, May 18, 1998.
· "Overview on the Protection of Intellectual Property," speaker, Glasgow, March 5, 1993.
· "Transfer of Technology: Intellectual Property, Copyrights, Trademarks and Patents," speaker, The Legal Aspects of Doing Business in the New European Community, 1992.
· "Europe 1992: Transfer of Technology: Some Thoughts and Wider Implications," speaker.
· "Europe 1992: Intellectual Property and the Transfer of Technology," speaker, New York State Bar Association, New York, January 1991.
· "International Patenting and Foreign Issues: An Organizational Approach for Prospective Markets EEC/Far East," speaker with C.E. Miller and J.M. Richardson, Association of University Technology Managers, San Francisco, February 1991.
· "Patent Glasnost in Eastern Europe," author, American Association of Corporate Patent Counsel, January 1991.
· "Europe 1992: Intellectual Property: an Overview" author, Law Journal Seminars Press, November 1990.
News & Publications
March 20, 2012, Edwards Wildman Featured in World Trademark Review 1000 'Top 25'
October 6, 2011, EAPD Attorneys Selected For Inclusion in Super Lawyers 2011
December 2010/January 2011, David Weild III and Carolyn Gouges d'Agincourt Co-Author Article on Common Law Protections for Unregistered Trademarks for World Trademark Review
October 7, 2010, EAPD Attorneys Selected For Inclusion in Super Lawyers 2010
March 1, 2010, EAPD Attorneys Recognized in 2010 Super Lawyers Corporate Counsel Edition
June 22, 2009, EAPD Attorneys Recognized in Super Lawyers 2009 Corporate Counsel Edition
November 24, 2008, EAPD Attorneys Recognized in Super Lawyers 2008 Corporate Counsel Edition
October 30, 2008, EAPD Attorneys Named Super Lawyers 2008
October 30, 2007, EAPD Attorneys Named Super Lawyers 2007
August 6, 2007, Intellectual Property Attorney David Weild III Joins New York Office of Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge as Partner
Events
October 18-21, 2009, San Francisco, CA, Licensing Executive Society (USA & Canada) 2009 Annual Meeting
Memberships
· American Bar Association
· American Intellectual Property Law Association
· American Society of International Law
· Asia-Pacific Lawyers Association
· Association of the Bar of the City of New York
· Association of University Technology Managers
· Association pour le Protection de la Propriete Industrielle (AIPPI)
· Chartered Institute of Patent Agents (U.K.) (Foreign Member)
· Federal Circuit Bar Association
· Former Chair of the NYIPLA Committee on Harmonization of the Patent Laws and the International Advisory Group and International Committee of INTA
· Former member of the Editorial Board of The Trademark Reporter and current member of its ADR subcommittee
· Institute of Trade Marks Agents
· International Bar Association
· International Trademark Association
· Licensing Executives Society
· New York Inn of American Inns of Court
· New York Intellectual Property Association
· New York State Bar Association
· Registered United States, Canadian and Philippines Patent Offices