David Drews

David Drews, CLP is founding member and president of IPmetrics LLC in San Diego and has more than 25 years of experience as a financial analyst, primarily concentrated in valuing intellectual property of all types, including trademarks, copyrights, patents, know-how, trade secrets and rights of publicity. He has also been called on to calculate damages related to infringement of IP in numerous litigation and arbitration proceedings. Mr. Drew's valuation experience includes projects involving use of the assets as collateral, transaction due diligence, joint-venture negotiations, licensing, transfer pricing and bankruptcy/reorganization. He has performed valuations on assets as diverse as apparel, financial ser- vices, automotive, nonprofit organization and consumer brand trademarks; mechanical, chemical and electrical patents, processes and trade secrets; customer lists; noncompete agreements; rights of public- ity; and entertainment industry characters, trademarks and copyrights. Mr. Drews is a creator/instructor of the Intellectual Property: Calculating Damages and Lost Profits course for the National Association of Certified Valuation Analysts (NACVA) and has taught the Valuation of Intellectual Property course offered by the National Technology Transfer Center and the Monetary Remedies in Trademark Cases seminar at the University of San Diego School of Law. In addition to regularly publishing articles in various journals and industry publications, he is a frequent lecturer on IP issues. Mr. Drews received his undergraduate degree in economics from the University of Nebraska.