David Winters
Senior Legal Specialist
Belfast
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David Winters
Senior Legal Specialist
Belfast
Contact details
David is a senior legal specialist focusing on intellectual property law and technical disputes. He joined Allen & Overy in February 2015. He has a PhD in mathematical physics and is the co-author of six peer-reviewed publications.
After leaving academia, David gained ten years of editorial and project management experience in academic publishing, primarily for the leading science journal Nature and its sister journals Nature Physics, Nature Chemistry, Nature Nanotechnology, Nature Photonics and Nature Materials. He is in the process of qualifying as a Chartered Legal Executive.
David has worked on a variety of highly technical litigation and arbitration matters. His IP work includes the analysis of patents on VR headset technology, smart appliances, machine fault prediction, network intrusion detection, database efficiency and interoperability, heat-not-burn smoking devices, LED packaging, mobile network handover and laser countermeasure systems, illustrating his ability to utilise his physics background across a wide range of technical fields. He is experienced in producing technical summaries of the patented inventions, identifying and assessing potential prior art, drafting claim and infringement charts, identifying potential expert witnesses in the relevant field, and assisting in the drafting and review of expert reports.
David has also defended clients in the aeronautical engineering, energy and biomedical device sectors against claims in arbitration and/or allegations of misuse of trade secrets. These matters variously involved the analysis of large numbers of complex engineering drawings, technical documents, reports and design specifications, and close liaison with industry, delay and quantum experts.
David is adept in the use of global IP databases in compiling and analysing patent and trade mark portfolios, and led a team handling a trade mark recordal project involving more than 15,000 trade marks across 180 jurisdictions. He also has extensive experience of drafting domain name complaints under the ICANN Uniform Domain-Name Dispute-Resolution Policy, both for clients and on behalf of the firm.
Qualifications
Academic
Postgraduate Diploma in Intellectual Property Law and Practice, University of Oxford, 2019
Masters in Legal Science with Distinction, Queen’s University Belfast, 2014
PhD and MSc in Physics, McGill University, Montreal, 2004
BA in Theoretical Physics, Trinity College, Dublin, 1998
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Qualifications
Academic
Postgraduate Diploma in Intellectual Property Law and Practice, University of Oxford, 2019
Masters in Legal Science with Distinction, Queen’s University Belfast, 2014
PhD and MSc in Physics, McGill University, Montreal, 2004
BA in Theoretical Physics, Trinity College, Dublin, 1998
Published work
- J.L. Hovdebo, M. Kruczenski, David Mateos, Robert C. Myers, D.J. Winters (Perimeter Inst. Theor. Phys. & Waterloo U. & McGill U.) (2005), “Holographic mesons: Adding flavor to the AdS/CFT duality”, Int.J.Mod.Phys. A20 3428-3433, cited 32 times.
- David J. Winters, (2004) “Aspects of D-branes: From branes in motion to meson spectroscopy”, PhD thesis.
- Martin Kruczenski (Brandeis U.), David Mateos (Perimeter Inst. Theor. Phys.), Robert C. Myers (Perimeter Inst. Theor. Phys. & Waterloo U.), David J. Winters (Perimeter Inst. Theor. Phys. & McGill U.), (2004), “Towards a holographic dual of large N(c) QCD”, Journal of High Energy Physics (JHEP) 0405 041, cited 385 times as of 28/01/2016.
- Martin Kruczenski (Perimeter Inst. Theor. Phys. & Toronto U.), David Mateos (Perimeter Inst. Theor. Phys.), Robert C. Myers, David J. Winters (Perimeter Inst. Theor. Phys. & McGill U.), (2003), “Meson spectroscopy in AdS/CFT with flavor”, JHEP 0307 049, cited 424 times as of 28/01/2016.
- Robert C. Myers (Perimeter Inst. Theor. Phys. & McGill U. & Waterloo U.), David J. Winters (Perimeter Inst. Theor. Phys. & McGill U.), (2002), “From D - anti-D pairs to branes in motion”. Nov 2002. 28 pp. Published in JHEP 0212 (2002) 061 Detailed record - Cited by 24 records.
- Martin Kruczenski (Toronto U. & Perimeter Inst. Theor. Phys.), Robert C. Myers (Perimeter Inst. Theor. Phys. & Waterloo U. & McGill U.), Amanda W. Peet (Toronto U.), David J. Winters (McGill U.) (2002), “Aspects of supertubes”, JHEP 0205 017, cited 32 times.
- Frederic Leblond, Robert C. Myers, David J. Winters (McGill U.), (2001), “Brane world sum rules and the AdS soliton”, MCGILL-00-14, talk given at conference: C01-04-10, cited 7 times.
- Frederic Leblond, Robert C. Myers, David J. Winters (McGill U.) (2001), “Consistency conditions for brane worlds in arbitrary dimensions”, JHEP 0107 031, cited 87 times
