Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Stephen has practiced patent prosecution for law firms in Boston and San Francisco, where he counsels tech startups on patent portfolio development, patent drafting, and patent prosecution. He has taught seminars on patent law and strategy at Cornell University, Harvard Medical School, the London School of Economics, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), New York University, and the Wharton School, as well as at premier universities in Hong Kong, Singapore, and Taiwan. He advises university startups through the Harvard Innovation Labs and the MIT Venture Mentoring Service, and has been appointed an expert in residence at various incubators and accelerators. He has served as co-founder, chief engineer, and software engineer in three award-winning startup companies, including Active Spectrum, a finalist in the MIT $50K Entrepreneurship Competition. Stephen graduated Phi Beta Kappa with four undergraduate and graduate degrees in physics and electrical engineering (EE), all from MIT, where he conducted master's and doctoral research in microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) and taught courses in digital signal processing. He earned the President Paul E. Gray Award for Excellence in Research and the Goodwin Medal, MIT's highest honor for excellence in teaching by a graduate student. Stephen received his law degree from the New York University School of Law, where he was a Dean's Award Scholar and an InSITE Fellow, advising startup companies and venture capitalists on patents, technology, and entrepreneurship. He is an alumnus of the International Patent Drafting Training Program hosted by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), a United Nations (UN) agency based in Geneva, Switzerland. Stephen is an early-stage investor in several startups, including CopySight AI, Istari Digital, Figure AI, Solve Intelligence, and Ultrade.
American Patent Agency PC is an MIT-trained intellectual property firm that drafts, files, and prosecutes patents for tech startups seeking to protect their inventions, and counsels them on patent strategy. Our clients develop cutting-edge technologies that include software, artificial intelligence, machine learning, blockchain, fintech, electronics, semiconductor devices, biomedical devices, robotics, aerospace, nuclear energy, and renewable energy. In addition to performing substantive patent work, I am responsible for sourcing new clients, recruiting team members, mentoring interns, conducting the firm's internal professional development program, and teaching external seminars.
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