Steven Fallon


EXPERIENCE

  • Practice devoted to intellectual property, including litigation of patent, trademark, copyright, trade secret, unfair competition, and legal malpractice matters in state and federal trial and appellate courts.
  • Prosecution of Patents, Trademarks and Copyrights, including inter party and appellate proceedings in the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
  • Client counseling, including licensing negotiations, and enforcement, infringement, and validity studies and opinions.
  • Alternative dispute resolution, including mediation and arbitration.
  • Past Chair of the Chicago Bar Association Patent, Trademark and Copyright Committee.
  • Former patent examiner at the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

BAR MEMBERSHIPS

  • U. S. Patent and Trademark Office
  • Supreme Court of the State of Illinois
  • U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, including Trial Bar
  • U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit

TECHNICAL FIELDS

  • Communications technologies, including data coding, wired and wireless networks, communication hardware and software, satellite based communications.
  • Control circuitry, including analog and digital controls for mechanical and electromechanical devices, and model predictive control systems.
  • Data storage devices, including semiconductor memories, and opto-electronic memories, magnetic devices.
  • Data analysis, including data error detection, correction and encoding systems.
  • Intelligent analysis systems, including pattern recognition, and electronic image analysis and manipulation.
  • Mechanical devices and engineering solutions, including structural mechanical designs and material solutions, and active mechanical devices, including complex mechanical systems.
  • Micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS), including devices, fabrication, and systems integration.
  • Microprocessor technologies, including architecture and fabrication.
  • Network hardware and software switches and router technology.
  • Nanotechnology, including fabrication of nanoscale devices and materials.
  • Opto-electronic devices, systems and fabrication, including semiconductor lasers, interferometers, image sensors, optical amplifiers, and optical repeaters.
  • Packet communication standards and software including, for example IEEE 1394 and Bluetooth.
  • Power hand tools and other tools, including electrical battery pack and charging technology, motor controllers for power tools.
  • Quantum physics driven engineering.
  • Web software, including search engines, interfaces and client-server communications.








EDUCATION

  • B.S., Electrical Engineering, Southern Illinois University, 1989
  • J.D., with High Honors, Chicago-Kent College of Law, Illinois Institute of Technology, 1995; Law Review, Admitted the Order of the Coif
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