Steven W. Hartsell

Steven Hartsell is a registered patent attorney and focuses his practice on patent infringement litigation, patent licensing, and inter partes review proceedings. He has represented clients in federal courts across the country in cases involving a variety of technologies, including semiconductors, distributed agent architectures, cellular phones, telecommunications, software anti-piracy, medical devices, DVD and television controls, and optical systems. Steven also has extensive experience representing and advising clients at all phases of inter partes review proceedings before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board. Before entering the practice of law, Steven worked as a research engineer on the development of combustion chemical vapor deposition techniques for a variety of applications. In addition, he provided analysis related to scanning electron microscopy, energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy, and optical profilometry. Before law school, Steven was an engineer in the semiconductor industry and worked as an applications engineer supporting chip manufacturers, including Texas Instruments.