Steven is a patent attorney with Setter Roche Smith & Shellenberger LLP and is based out of Austin, Texas.  Prior to joining the firm, Steven gained experience in the information technology field while working as an IT consultant at a Big Four accounting firm where he implemented enterprise resourcing planning applications at clients of various sizes and managed IT and business portfolios of several companies.  Steven currently handles patent drafting and prosecution in various fields of technology for our clients.  Steven also has experience with patent landscape mapping, infringement and validity analysis, and other types of patent analysis in numerous technology areas, including electrical and computer arts, power electronics, mechanical devices, and medical equipment, among other areas.

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Steven has patent experience in the following technology areas:

• Computer hardware and software

• Internet technologies, including infrastructure and network architecture

• Power electronics, power supply technologies, and related circuitry

• Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence

• Space-based technology and aerospace technologies

• Home automation and consumer electronics

• Factory and industrial automation technologies

 

Areas of Practice:

• U.S. and International Patent Preparation and Prosecution

• Patent Analysis and Opinions

  

Bar Admissions:

• Texas

• U.S. Patent and Trademark Office