Stephen heads up the US intellectual property and technology team.
He focuses on intellectual property enforcement and defense, including court and administrative action - patent office proceedings (ex parte patent reexaminations, inter partes patent review, trademark oppositions) and ITC. Steven is also experienced in procurement, licensing, due diligence and counseling, involving diverse intellectual property issues including advertising compliance, anti-counterfeiting, copyrights, domain names, grey goods, patents (utility and design), privacy and data protection, trade dress, trade secrets and trademarks.His litigation and administrative challenge practice has been diverse, running the gamut of technologies involving biotechnology, chemical, electrical, fashion, Hatch-Waxman, mechanical device, medical device and software matters. Steven also carries with him in-house experience, having been the Chief Intellectual Property Counsel for a joint venture ($1.5 billion in sales) between two large pharmaceutical companies.
In addition to Connecticut, New York and California, Steve is admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court, US Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit and several US District Courts (Connecticut, Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, and DC Circuit).