Management Team
Douglas K. Derwin, IP Attorney & Director
Douglas Derwin graduated from UCLA in 1980 and from Harvard Law School in 1983. He has practiced high-technology intellectual property law in Silicon Valley since 1983, beginning with Fenwick & West. From 1985 through 1993 he worked at Skjerven, Morrill, MacPherson, Franklin & Friel, becoming a partner in 1989. From 1994 through 1997 he was a partner in the Silicon Valley office of Weil, Gotshal & Manges, heading the firm’s High Technology Intellectual Property Group. In 1997 he founded Derwin & Siegel, and began working part-time as Senior Vice President for Intellectual Property at Intertrust Technologies Corp., in which capacity he was involved in generating a patent portfolio for Intertrust and then headed up a litigation team that asserted those patents against Microsoft, resulting in a settlement of $440 million, one of the largest patent recoveries on record. He is currently of counsel to Taylor & Co., a San Francisco law firm.