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DAVID M. DINGEMAN
E-MAIL dmd@cyberights.com
The Law Office of David M. Dingeman was established in 1998 practicing in the areas of Intellectual Property Law, Internet Law,
Trademarks, Copyrights, Software License Agreements, Domain Name Disputes and Contracts.
Below is Mr. Dingeman's educational and career background.
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Education
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1983 - 1987 University of Notre Dame South Bend, IN
Bachelor of Science Degree in Aerospace Engineering
1993 - 1997 University of Detroit Mercy Detroit, MI
Juris Doctor of Law
Texas License # A 0379
Admitted to practice before the United States District
Court for the Northern District of Texas.
Member of American Bar Association, Texas Bar
Association and Dallas Bar Association, Intellectual Property Section and Pro Bono Activities Committee.
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Summary
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Upon graduating from University of Notre Dame in 1987,
Mr. Dingeman began his career as a product engineer at Lockheed from 1987 through 1993 (secret clearance) working in control systems, aerodynamics and design of the F-22.
After deciding to go to law school in his hometown, Mr.
Dingeman found employment at Chrysler as a product engineer on the Dakota, Ram and Durango vehicles and earned his JD in the evenings at University of
Detroit Mercy in four years.
Mr. Dingeman decided to open his private practice in intellectual property
in Dallas in 1998 while continuing to act as an engineering consultant in
3-D design, database integration, software and telecommunications.
In consulting, Mr. Dingeman was employed by Trilogy
and responsible for the modification, debugging, and deployment of front-end, web-based
software solutions for large telecomm companies.
In his practice, he has three years experience writing patent applications,
trademark applications, license agreements, confidentiality agreements,
and responses to office actions. The patents he has written include
complex computer operating systems, network
systems, browser applications and a variety of electro-mechanical devices.
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Legal Experience
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Law Office of David M. Dingeman, Dallas, TX 1998 - Present
From 1998 through the present, Mr. Dingeman has written
patent applications on computer BIOS start-up, remote boot of a computer across a network, advanced browser application for the Internet, electro-mechanical lighting system, dynamic wheel balancing
system, computer sorting routine across a TCP/IP network and many mechanical inventions
Also during this time, Mr. Dingeman has written dozens
of trademark applications, responses to office actions, license agreements, non-disclosure agreements and cease and desist letters. He has also represented a respondent in a domain name dispute
before WIPO, Case # D2000-0565, and won.
Mr. Dingeman has presented a white paper to the Dallas
Bar Association in October, 1999 on the recent changes to the law that impact intellectual
property rights on the Internet.
He has also prepared and given three on-line seminars
which have been taken by over 250 other attorneys at cleonline.com on intellectual property issues with respect to the Internet.
Mr. Dingeman is an active member of the Intellectual
Property Section of the Dallas Bar Association, the e-Commerce Section, the Mock Trial Section and also volunteers to speak to area schools on pursuing a career in law.
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Engineering Experience
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TRILOGY SOFTWARE - Austin, TX 1998 - 2001
Software Engineering Consultant
Developed, installed, tested and implemented
e-commerce and configuration web sites for SGI, Nortel and Lucent Power Energy Systems
Modified, Installed and loaded Trilogy
Front-End, Enterprise software on servers and clients. Implemented Trilogy solutions at customer site.
Created user interface storyboards with customer and developed html.
WORKGROUP TECHNOLOGY - Lexington, MA 1998
Software Application Engineer
Created demonstrations using Pro/Engineer, CMS
product data management software, and weblink software. Acquired extensive knowledge on Oracle, Pro/E, Catia, and product data management graphical user interfaces.
Developed pre-sales
demonstrations for PDM. Utilized extensive presentation skills for pre-sales demonstrations.
Developed web pages using html,
cgi scripts and Perl for small businesses; developed on-line gourmet shop: grindedvine.com.
DASSAULT SYSTEMES - Dallas, TX 1997 - 1998
Software Application Engineer
Created demonstrations using Catia and CADAM
design and analysis tools and presented to potential customers.
Also acted as systems engineer by installing operating systems, Catia software, drivers and libraries on customers' UNIX and NT networked systems.
Taught Basics, Solids, Surfacing, and
Generative Drafting to large and small aerospace companies; received excellent feedback.
Utilized C/C++, html, cgi scripts and Perl.
Wrote small routines in C++ and linked to Catia to read imported data.
CHRYSLER - JEEP & TRUCK ENGINEERING - Detroit, MI 1993 - 1997
Product Engineer / Team Leader
Worked on design, tooling and manufacturing of
exterior ornamentation components on the 1998 Dodge Durango such as grille, headlamps, taillamps, and bumpers. Skills included using Catia, IBM PCs and application software for designing
parts and writing reports.
Was part of a J.D. Power launch team at the
Warren Assembly Plant on the 1995 Dodge Ram and Dakota trucks. Tasks included immediate process and design changes, tooling improvements and supplier quality awareness.
LOCKHEED - Burbank, CA 1987 - 1993
Structural Dynamics Engineer, Senior
Converted engineering analysis codes from IBM
mainframe and VAX and written in FORTRAN 66 to C and FORTRAN 77 on the CONVEX computer. Skills included full working knowledge of the CONVEX computer and one of its debuggers, CXDB.
Coded stability derivatives and state-space
equations in a structural optimization language (ASTROS) based on FORTRAN for the Air Force and wrote corresponding user's guides. In addition, modeled aircraft aerodynamically and structurally
using various CFD, structural, and thermal analysis codes such as NASTRAN, ASTROS, I-DEAS, RASNA, and Pro/ENGINEER.
Ÿ Prepared
Engineering for full-scale development and production of a major aircraft program.
Tasks included leading a ten-man team with $250k budget to automate finite element modeling, flutter prediction analyses, weight optimization methods and vibration/acoustic data comparisons. Strengths include strong structural background, liaison engineering abilities and versatility on many computers.
GENERAL MOTORS CORP., Cadillac Division - Troy, MI 1983 - 1986 1984 - 1986
Development Engineer (Summer Intern)
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