Richard Stevens

Founding Partner

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Professional Experience

Dick Stevens is a founding partner who practices in patent related matters. He emphasizes client counseling regarding U.S. and foreign patent matters including patentability, infringement, clearance and validity opinions and has substantial experience in preparation and prosecution of U.S. and foreign utility and design patent applications/registrations including appeals and reexaminations in technologies including materials handling vehicles, paper manufacturing monitoring, can end production, medical technology, manufacturing processes, telephony, laser printers, fuel vapor recovery systems, lighting, writing instruments and radar detectors. He was a Member of Technical Staff at Bell Telephone Laboratories for six years and a Member of Patent Staff at Bell Telephone Laboratories for five years prior to entering private practice in 1979.

Education

• B.E.E., Cum Laude, The Ohio State University, 1968
• M.S. in Electrical Engineering, The Ohio State University, 1969
• J.D., with high honors, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago Kent College of Law, 1977

Bar Admissions

• Illinois, 1977 (inactive)
• Ohio, 1981
• Registered to Practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, 1976

Court Admissions

• U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio
• U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit

Professional Associations

• Federal Circuit Bar Association
• American Intellectual Property Law Association
• Ohio State Bar Association
• Dayton Bar Association
• Dayton Intellectual Property Law Association
• Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers