Darnell uses corporate experience and professional technical experience to counsel clients through assessing, protecting, and leveraging intellectual property issues primarily in patent-related matters in technology areas including mechanical, life sciences and software.
Having spent years as an engineer at a global leader in manufacturing, Darnell brings practical and industry leading knowledge to the complexities and challenges in patent matters. Darnell assists a wide range of clients from individuals and startups through small businesses and large corporations in identifying and protecting their innovations.
While attending law school, Darnell worked as an equipment installation structural analyst and as a paralegal for an aircraft manufacturing and government contracting company. Prior to that, Darnell worked in Saint Louis, Missouri as an intellectual property extern at a law firm and in the intellectual property department at a global technology solutions company headquartered there. Darnell has additional engineering experience as a thermodynamics analyst and as a test engineer in the aerospace industry. He has also developed simulation programs and performed extensive research and testing on the cryopreservation of biological specimen.
Darnell received his J.D. with a concentration in intellectual property, business transactional law and entrepreneurship law from the Saint Louis University School of Law. While there, he worked in the intellectual property group of the Entrepreneurship and Community Development Clinic at the Saint Louis University School of Law where he helped clients in a variety of transactional matters as well as advised, filed and defended clients’ trademarks.
