Dan Knauss’s litigation practice focuses on intellectual property, with an emphasis on life sciences. He litigates patent infringement and contract disputes concerning a variety of technologies, including cancer medicines, antiviral therapeutics, biofuels, agriculture and medical devices. He has been to trial in federal courts, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board and the International Trade Commission.

Before attending law school, Dan was director of intellectual property at Third Wave Technologies, a publicly owned molecular diagnostics company. In this position, he managed an international patent portfolio of over 200 issued and pending applications and coordinated outside counsel to achieve the company's patent procurement goals and service its licensing and litigation needs.

While at Stanford Law School, he was an editor of the Stanford Technology Law Review and externed in the Santa Clara County District Attorney's Office, preparing and successfully arguing several motions in court for misdemeanor and felony matters.

He developed scientific expertise as a graduate student focusing on retroviral entry mechanisms, cancer biology, and antiretroviral therapeutic drug discovery. He is published in peer-reviewed scientific journals and has given oral presentations at national scientific meetings.