Steve has 20 years of experience as a design engineer doing NMOS and CMOS digital, analog, memory, and mixed-signal circuit design, logic design, and computer architecture. He originated the Intel 8096 and Ford EEC-4 microprocessor families and worked on other designs, including processor, display control, perceptual compression, networking, and communications systems. After becoming a patent attorney, Steve did much patent prosecution in these fields. Upon adding his M.D. degree, Steve diversified his patent practice into bioengineering, including medical diagnostic instrumentation systems that often use artificial intelligence while continuing patent prosecution in digital and analog electronic circuits and systems including image sensing and semiconductor processing. His clients include universities, small and large companies, and other developers of medical instruments and devices, digital, mixed-signal, and analog circuits, computer hardware and architecture, and software.
Steve's master's degree in electrical engineering, combined with more than 20 years of engineering experience, gives him a thorough grounding in the practical aspects of the latest logic and circuits for integrated circuitry as well as medical devices. In addition, his medical school coursework provides background in biochemistry, molecular biology, and other topics in modern biotechnology and modern medical devices.
Prior to joining the firm, Steve was counsel with an Am Law 200 firm. Steve earned his B.A. and M.S. in engineering science from the University of California, Berkeley. He earned his J.D. from Brigham Young University and his M.D. and M.B.A. from St. Georges University School of Medicine and is an IEEE life member.