Danielle “DJ” Healey has been recognized by Chambers Global, Chambers U.S., Best Lawyers in America, IAM, and Super
Lawyers as one of the preeminent intellectual property litigators in the U.S. She has over 30 years of experience in
planning and executing enforcement strategies and counter-strategies in Federal and State Courts, the ITC, the FTC,
European Courts, and the European Commission.
DJ has put together lawsuits for plaintiffs to enforce their patents, protect their trade secrets, defend their copyrights, and
to deal with overreaching by others through antitrust and other business torts. She has worked with defendants to
efficiently and effectively navigate their intellectual property and related antitrust problems, in some cases saving her
clients billions of dollars.
With clients ranging from large corporations to individual inventors and entrepreneurs, DJ has done and won trade secret
lawsuits in state and federal courts in California and Texas, prosecuted and defended patent and antitrust lawsuits in
every district in Texas, in the Northern District of Illinois, the Northern and Central Districts of California, the District of
Colorado, the District of Connecticut, the District of Delaware, the Southern District of New York, the Western District of
Oregon, the Western District of Washington, and the Eastern District of Virginia, as well as at the ITC. She has negotiated
patent licenses in the semiconductor and software industries, represented clients in dealing with obligations and licensing
in standard-setting organizations, served as general counsel to a standard-setting group, worked on organization of
standard-setting groups, and litigated the substantive and anticompetitive effects of licenses in court, arbitration, and
administrative agency hearings. She has also tried cases in U.S. District Courts, state courts, the U.S. International Trade
Commission, the International Chamber of Commerce (arbitration), the American Arbitration Association, the National
Association of Securities Dealers Arbitration Forum, and private arbitration.
