| Biography | Steven C. Becker is a partner in the Milwaukee office of Foley & Lardner LLP. A member of the Electronics Practice, Energy Industry Team and the Medical Device Initiative, Mr. Becker helps clients protect and enforce their intellectual property, with a focus on patents. His practice includes patent prosecution, strategic planning and portfolio management, design arounds, brainstorming sessions, pre-litigation enforcement and defense, licensing matters, and non-infringement/invalidity studies. He also represents clients in patent and trade secret litigation matters. Mr. Becker has provided intellectual property counsel in a variety of electrical and computer technologies, including software, business methods, mobile devices, automation, power supplies, semiconductor fabrication, medical imaging, telematics and telecommunications. Mr. Becker is a graduate of Marquette University (B.S., cum laude, electrical and computer engineering, 1994) and Syracuse University (J.D., summa cum laude, 1997). As an undergraduate, he was a General Motors Scholar and a member of Alpha Sigma Nu, a Jesuit Honor Society. As a co-op student, he worked at Delco Electronics on design projects for new and existing automotive electronics technologies. Mr. Becker is admitted to practice in Wisconsin and before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. He is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, the Society of Automotive Engineers, the Licensing Executives Society, and the American Intellectual Property Law Association. In 2005, he received the firm's IP Founders award, recognizing his service to his clients, his colleagues and the firm. |