Professional experience
Daniel J. Burns is a Principal in the Silicon Valley office of Fish & Richardson P.C. His practice emphasizes patent prosecution in the area of 3D computer graphics, computer animation, motion capture, holographic imaging, 2D image processing, game systems, compiler technology, virtual machine architecture, web-based technologies, computer hardware, and the mechanical arts.

Mr. Burns' previous technical experience includes work as an engineer in the Space Physics Group at Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. Subsequently, Mr. Burns worked as an engineer and manager at various companies developing wireless communication platforms and distributed software systems. Mr. Burns has ten years of software development experience and is fluent in Java, C++, MS-Windows, and various flavors of Unix.

Publications
Daniel J. Burns, Is Making a Back-Up Copy of a DVD "Fair Use"?: 321 Studios v. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, J. OF INTERNET LAW, January 2003, at 8.

Bar admissions
Admitted to the bar in California.
Registered to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Admitted to practice before the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.

Additional information
Member: Association for Computing Machinery, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.