Overview
Heavily involved in a variety of intellectual property and transactional matters for emerging-market companies as well as established businesses, Dick provides sophisticated IP counsel to diverse clients in wide-ranging industries, including:
- Financial services
- Heavy industrial manufacturing
- Internet applications
- Computer software
- Construction
Dick is heavily involved in a wide variety of business transactions that have an IP or technology component. He often represents clients in sophisticated patent license arrangements as well as license arrangements involving other types of proprietary property.
He also assists his clients in product planning, design, protection and implementation through cooperation with design teams and others in the product development process. He is well versed in the issues arising from transactions involving joint development of intellectual property and other proprietary rights.
Dick also has extensive experience litigating patent, trademark, trade secret and copyright disputes across a spectrum of technologies.
He is registered to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
Notable
Notable
- Best Lawyers in America, Charlotte Trademark Law "Lawyer of the Year," 2020
- Best Lawyers in America, Intellectual Property Law, 2007-2020; Commercial Litigation, 2007-2022; Copyright Law, 2007-2025; Litigation-Intellectual Property, 2007-2025; Litigation- Patent, 2007-2024; Patent Law, 2007-2025; Trademark Law, 2007-2025
- Chambers USA - North Carolina, Intellectual Property, 2012-2023
- North Carolina Super Lawyers, 2008-2020, 2024-2025
- Managing Intellectual Property's IP Stars, 2013-2024
- IAM Patent 1000: The World's Leading Patent Practitioners, 2014-2024
- Business North Carolina Legal Elite, 2008-2010, 2012-2013, 2015
News
News
Affiliations
Affiliations
- Licensing Executives Society
Education
J.D., Wake Forest University
B.S., Mechanical Engineering, North Carolina State University, magna cum laude
Admissions
- North Carolina
- U.S. Supreme Court
- U.S. Patent and Trademark Office