Steven Stupp, Ph.D.

Senior US Patent Agent

steve@torreypineslaw.com
+1 (858) 869-1250

Steven Stupp is a patent agent, inventor and entrepreneur having 20 years of experience advising clients on:

international patent preparation and prosecution
international patent portfolio development and strategy, and leveraging those portfolios through a variety of commercial transactions
patent searching and evaluation of patent landscapes
due diligence, patent acquisition, and evaluation of international intellectual property rights

He has drafted in excess of 2,000 patents for Fortune 100 companies, top universities and startup companies, including some of the first patents for Apple's iPhone which were successfully litigated for $600M. Steve is an author of thirty-six refereed scientific publications on systems engineering, digital communications and superconductivity, and is an inventor of 18 patented technologies.

Technical fields in which Steve counsels clients include software, data analysis, artificial intelligence (machine learning, deep learning, convolutional neural networks), medical device, medical imaging, user interfaces, client-server architecture, wireless communication, networking, digital communications, circuits, signal processing, system architecture, processors, semiconductor devices, fabrication, and materials science technologies. His clients regularly entrust him with their technically difficult and high-stake inventions.

Steve received a Bachelor of Science degree in Physics from Tufts University, summa cum laude, and a M.S. (Physics) and Ph.D. (Condensed Matter Physics) from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Steve is a registered patent agent with the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office.

Torrey Pines Law Group, PC serves technology innovators with protecting intellectual property, obtaining regulatory approvals and clearances, and making deals and closing technology transactions throughout the U.S., including in major technology hubs such as San Diego, San Francisco, Palo Alto, San Jose, Silicon Valley, Boston, Cambridge, Chicago, Minneapolis, Houston, Dallas, Atlanta, Denver, Seattle, Portland, Boulder, Orlando, the Research Triangle (Raleigh, Durham, and Chapel Hill), the Mid-Atlantic (New Jersey, New York, Philadelphia, Maryland, Virginia, and Washington, DC), Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Ann Arbor, and throughout Southern California in Los Angeles, Orange County, Irvine, Torrey Pines, Sorrento Valley, and La Jolla.

We have experience with international intellectual property, regulatory and transactional matters pending in Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, and Guangzhou China; Tokyo, Japan; Berlin, Munich and Frankfurt Germany; Tel Aviv Israel; Mumbai, Bengaluru, and New Delhi India; London and Edinburgh United Kingdom; Vancouver, Toronto, Calgary and Montreal Canada; Dublin, Ireland; Cape Town, South Africa; Mexico City and Tijuana Mexico; Brussels, Belgium; Copenhagen, Denmark; Paris, France; Madrid and Barcelona Spain; Moscow, Russia; Santiago, Chile; Montevideo, Uruguay; Buenos Aires, Argentina; Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro Brazil; Seoul, South Korea; Taipei, Taiwan; Hong Kong; Hanoi, Vietnam; Bangkok, Thailand; Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; Milan, Italy; Singapore; Sydney, Melbourne, Perth and Adelaide Australia; Auckland, New Zealand; Oslo, Norway; Stockholm, Sweden; Helsinki, Finland; Kiev, Ukraine; Budapest, Hungary; Vienna, Austria; Prague, Czechia; Geneva and Lausanne Switzerland; Bahrain; Doha, Qatar; Abu Dhabi and Dubai UAE; and Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.