Darnell provides intellectual property counseling and helps clients minimize their patent infringement risk.
Darnell is an associate in the Intellectual Property and Patents Groups where he helps clients identify and protect their innovations, with an emphasis in patent-related matters.
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 attending law school, he worked as an equipment installation structural analyst and as a paralegal for an aircraft manufacturing and government contracting company. Prior to that, Darnell worked as an intellectual property extern at a law firm and in the intellectual property department at a global technology solutions company headquartered in Saint Louis, Missouri. He also worked in the intellectual property group of the Entrepreneurship and Community Development Clinic at the Saint Louis University School of Law where he advised, filed and defended clients’ trademarks. Darnell has additional engineering experience as a thermodynamics analyst and as a test engineer in the aerospace industry. He has also performed extensive research and testing on the cryopreservation of biological specimen.
