AboutDai Davis
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Dai Davis
Partner
Percy Crow Davis & Co
Intellectual Property Law
Dai is a Technology Lawyer. He read Physics at Keble College, Oxford and took a Masters Degree in Computing Science at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne before qualifying as a Solicitor. He is a qualified Chartered Engineer and Member of the Institution of Engineering and Technology. Dai has consistently been recommended in the Legal 500 and in Chambers Guides to the Legal Profession for over two decades.
Having been national head of Intellectual Property Law and later national head of Information Technology law at Eversheds (now Eversheds Sutherland) for a number of years, Dai is now the principal in his own law practice, Percy Crow Davis & Co Ltd. He is based primarily in London and Yorkshire although he has clients throughout the country.
Dai advises clients on intellectual property, computer and technology law subjects. He is primarily a non-contentious lawyer, specialising in advising on commercial agreements relating to software and technology products. He advises on intellectual property licences for clients producing a wide range of goods and services including patent licensing, distribution and agency agreements. Dai also gives advice on the litigious aspects of trademarks, copyright and designs, acting for both claimants and defendants.
Dai is a non-executive director of FAST (The Federation Against Software Theft) and a Liveryman of the WCIT (Worshipful Company of Information Technologists). He has chaired an International Standards legal advisory committee for over a decade and is a recipient of the International Electrotechnical Commission’s 1906 award.
Dai is a popular public speaker and a regular contributor to legal and technology journals. Dai is a Fellow of the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce. He has been a Council member of the Licensing Executives Society of the United Kingdom, a body of professionals dealing in intellectual property licensing, for more than fifteen years and served as Treasurer of that Society.