Spruson & Ferguson (Asia) Names Daniel Collopy Principal
02 September 2015
Spruson & Ferguson (Asia) has named Daniel Collopy a principal in its Singapore office. Collopy once served as a criminal prosecutor before deciding to move into the field of intellectual property law where he has worked in both law firms and in-house in multinational corporations. His in-house experience included more than a decade as an IP attorney with Motorola and several years as associate general counsel for Advanced Micro Devices. More recently, he was an IP consultant for Exploit Technologies and an instructor at IP Academy Singapore. He has also prepared and/or prosecuted more than 300 patents in semiconductor technologies (including memory technologies and semiconductor processing), communication technologies, electric automobile engine control systems, avionics and other software, electronics, mechanical and design areas. He also initiated an anti-counterfeiting program which consisted of conducting cooperative raids in Malaysia, Thailand, South Korea and Taiwan and working with local and federal governments in China, Australia, Singapore, and the US to stem the manufacture, sale and flow of counterfeit communication products.
