David Woodral is a member of the firm’s Intellectual Property Group and devotes his practice to helping businesses, inventors, and creators protect and enforce their intellectual property rights in the United States and internationally, as well as help them maximize those assets through licensing, commercialization, and other business transactions. His work encompasses the areas of patents, trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets, unfair competition, licensing, and related litigation in federal trial and appellate courts and before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, Trademark Trial and Appeal Board, and U.S. International Trade Commission.
As a registered patent attorney, David has specific expertise providing strategic counsel to clients in a broad range of patent matters and is particularly well versed in technologies such as semiconductors, nanotechnology, telecommunications, networking, software applications, mechanical devices, downhole oil and gas technologies, fuel formulations, hydraulics, consumer devices, medical devices, pharmaceuticals, and automotive safety. Throughout his career, has counseled and represented clients in matters involving patent prosecution, infringement analyses, validity studies, freedom to operate studies, interference proceedings, and USPTO post-grant proceedings before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, including post-grant reviews and inter partes reviews. He also has experience representing clients in blocking imported goods that infringe on their IP rights through ITC enforcement proceedings.
David’s achievements have earned him inclusion in the prestigious Chambers USA Guide to America’s Leading Lawyers for Business and in The Best Lawyers in America (patent law; trademark law), which also selected him as “Best Lawyers Patent Lawyer of the Year” in Tulsa for 2025.
The Oklahoma native earned his bachelor’s degree in computer engineering from the University of Oklahoma and worked as a research assistant and software engineer prior to entering law school.
David is a citizen of the Cherokee Nation.