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Steven
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Lawrenz
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Steve Lawrenz focuses his practice on strategic patent portfolio management and patent prosecution with specific emphasis on computer software and Internet applications. He evaluates third-party patent portfolios, counsels clients on avoiding patent infringement, and mines client patent portfolios to identify assets for licensing, patent infringement counterclaims and divestment.
He has experience with patent preparation and prosecution in many technology areas, including: Internet business models, applications, advertising, and behavioral analysis; searching and search result processing, including multimedia search; electronic merchant infrastructures; recommendation techniques; cloud computing and other uses of virtual computing; computer and Internet games; software development tools, including those for analyzing and debugging multithreaded programs; operating systems, including real-time operating systems, file systems, visual user interface features, security measures, and library and device driver architectures; relational and multidimensional database systems; network infrastructure and security; ambiguous text input; object-oriented programming; natural language processing and understanding; computer vision; voice input; electronic election systems; valuation modeling; software patching and updating functionality; software application features, including those of CRM applications and office productivity applications; server load-testing; industrial process control; and techniques for adding functionality to rendered documents.
Professional Recognition
- Listed in Washington Law & Politics, “Rising Stars of Washington Law,” 2003, 2005 and 2006
- Listed in Washington Law & Politics, “Washington's Super Lawyers,” 2007 - 2009
Professional Leadership
- Washington State Bar Association
- Washington State Patent Law Association
- Association for Computing Machinery
Related Employment
- Seed and Berry LLP, Seattle, WA, Associate
- International Business Machines, Rochester, MN, Software Developer
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- University of Illinois College of Law, J.D., 1992
- University of Illinois, B.S., Computer Science, with highest honors, 1989
- Washington
- U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
- U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington
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