Steve is a partner with over thirty years experience in the field of intellectual property. Prior to working with Fitch Even, Steve worked in private practice for seven years and also worked in Motorola's in-house patent department for 17 years. His last position at Motorola was as Vice-President and Director of Intellectual Property for Nascent and Emerging Technologies where Steve led efforts to identify or create inventions of strategic importance to the company. Prior to that he was Vice-President and Director of Portfolio Management where Steve oversaw various efforts to reform the company's patent acquisition and maintenance processes.

Steve has extensive experience in all facets of intellectual property practice, both in the United States and in foreign countries. He has represented clients in patent, trademark, copyright, and trade secret matters. His experience includes portfolio reviews (including due diligence studies), defensive and enforcement studies and opinions, licensing, acquisitions and divestitures, standards bodies representation, litigation, anti-counterfeiting, university development and research agreements, government laboratory CRADAs, technology transfers, and various patent acquisition and maintenance activities involving a wide variety of electrical, software, and mechanical arts. Steve has broad experience in the areas of software-based and web-based inventions as well as inventions pertaining to human-machine interfaces and business methods. To date, Steve has personally prepared and filed over one thousand U.S. patent applications.

Steve is a frequent speaker on domestic and international intellectual property related topics for various organizations, including both for the legal community and business groups of various kinds. He has also served for many years on the National Knowledge and Intellectual Property Management Taskforce. Steve authored a book entitled "Strategic Patent Portfolio Management," as published by the Center for Advanced Technologies, National Knowledge and Intellectual Property Management Taskforce. Steve has also authored a chapter entitled "How to Turn White Space Dark for Fun and Profit" for the John Wiley & Sons publication entitled Business Power - Creating New Wealth From IP Assets. His chapter in this book provides specific details about how to successfully conduct advanced inventing sessions to identify and fill holes in the patent portfolio of a given enterprise. Outside of the firm, Steve spends his time writing, traveling, boating, and performing and recording music.