Ross Dannenberg

Founding Partner, Managing Partner

Email ross@kelldann.com

Phone 571-725-DANN (3266)

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Representative Matters

Led major software portfolio work: helped oversee prosecution, portfolio management, and counseling for enterprise software and communications clients.
Built valuable video game portfolios: developed patent strategies for game developers and publishers covering user input, training, matchmaking, and in-game systems.
Handled broad IP disputes: represented clients in trademark, copyright, patent, and TTAB matters across technology, consumer products, and craft brewing.

Selected Thought Leadership

With a background in computer science, Ross handles all facets of intellectual property procurement, counseling, and enforcement. In addition to working on thousands of software patent prosecution matters, Ross has extensive experience with contentious patent, copyright and trademark matters, including litigation, counseling and licensing, for companies in virtually every industry, including video games, software development, automobile parts and manufacturing, healthcare, medical devices, and craft brewing. Ross has also led numerous copyright litigations defending firm clients from accusations of infringement by performance rights organizations (e.g., ASCAP) and other copyright enforcement entities.

Ross, a lifetime fellow of the American Bar Foundation, is a recognized leader in video game intellectual property issues. He is an adjunct professor of Copyright Law and Video Game and Immersive Entertainment Law; the founder and editor-in-chief of the PatentArcade.com (opens in a new tab) legal blog; editor and principal contributor of The American Bar Association's Legal Guide to Video Game Development (opens in a new tab); editor of The American Bar Association's Computer Games and Immersive Entertainment: Next Frontiers in Intellectual Property Law (opens in a new tab); and founding chair of the American Bar Association's IP Section Committee on Computer Games and Virtual Worlds. He also serves on the editorial board for the Interactive Entertainment Law Review (IELR), and has been a member of the Video Game Bar Association since its inception.

"Experienced in all facets of computer science, Ross has carved a niche in the video gaming world, setting high scores with his work, even when faced with fiendish levels of difficulty." - IAM Patent 1000

Having obtained a patent of his own, Ross has prepared and/or prosecuted thousands of patent applications for others over his 20+ year legal career. He has patent experience with user-interfaces, mobile apps, web services, APIs, Internet routing and networking, blockchain, cryptocurrency, video game, telecommunications, embedded systems, and a multitude of other computer software-related technologies.

Ross' clients include multinational software, networking, and telecommunications companies, multiple video game companies having user bases of over 20 million users, video game developers and publishers of various sizes, and emerging technology companies.