Steven L. Nichols
Steve Nichols practices in all areas of intellectual property and eCommerce law with an emphasis on drafting and prosecuting patent and trademark applications for both small and major corporate clients in the electrical and mechanical arts, including software and business method patents. Steve also handles e-commerce and Internet legal issues, intellectual property licensing and litigation.
Steve is a former patent examiner with the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office where he handled hundreds of patent applications for light detectors with associated optics and circuitry. These inventions covered a wide range of electrical fields including imaging arrays and image intensifiers, fiber optic communications, photocopiers and fax machines, auto-focus cameras, product inspection systems, intruder detection systems and missile tracking systems.
Since 2001, Steve has served as an adjunct professor at Brigham Young University. Steve teaches e-commerce and Internet law at the J. Rueben Clark Law School of BYU and a course that he created in “Fundamentals of Intellectual Property for Business Managers, Scientists and Engineers” at the Fulton College of Engineering & Technology at BYU.
He holds a Bachelor of Science, cum laude, in Applied Physics (1993) from Brigham Young University and a Juris Doctor, with honors (1998), from the George Mason University School of Law. He served on the George Mason Law Review where he authored Hippocrates the Patent-Holder: The Unenforceability of Medical Procedure Patents (1997).
Steve is admitted to practice by the Virginia State Bar (1998), the District of Columbia Bar (1999), the Utah State Bar (2000), the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (1998), and is registered to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office (1996).
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