Steven C. Oppenheimer

I am a patent attorney. My fields are the software, electrical, and mechanical arts. I specialize in writing AND illustrating carefully drafted patent applications. I can also engage in patent prosecution and related areas of patent practice.

My background in technology began at Cornell University where I was a College Scholar, with my studies emphasizing physics, applied mathematics, and philosophy. After Cornell I spent some early career years in writing, computer programmming, and technical illustration.

I then spent over a decade as a technical writing, creating users guides and some highly formal, technical documentation for electronic, software, and communications systems.

In 2005 I took and passed the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's patent bar exam, and became a patent agent. I worked for over three years as a patent agent at the patent law firm of Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein and Fox.

In 2011 I became a later-life law student at American University. I graduate in the top 20% in 2015 and passed the Maryland bar (on the first try...) in 2017. I am now a licensed patent attorney.

As I write this (February, 2018) I am currently drafting patent applications on a contract basis as a subcontractor to several IP law firms.

• Rates, Retainers and Additional Information
  I can draft and prosecute patent applications on either an hourly or fixed fee basis. I draft a careful, cleary, and thorough patent application. I charge very reasonable fees but not bargain basement fees.

Maryland

Since 2017

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

Since 2005

American University Washington College of Law

J.D. (2015)

2011 - 2015

>> Intellectual Property: Patent Law (A), Trademark Law (A), Entertainment Law (A), IP Licensing and Technology Agreements (A-), IP in Cyberspace (B+). >> Business: Business Associations (A), Corporate Finance (A), Secured Transactions (A). >> Legal Research Paper on “Patent Obviousness in View of KSR” (A).

Honors: Cum laude, May, 2015; GPA: 3.71 (Top 20%); Gillett-Mussey Fellowship recipient.

Cornell University

B.A. (1982) | Physics

1978 - 1982

Honors: College Scholar, Distinction in All Subjects

American Bar Association

Current

AIPLA

Current

IEEE

Current

State Bar of Maryland

Member

Current