Steven I. Wallach | Attorney

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About Steven

Partner, Litigation Department and Intellectual Property Group. As a partner at Dilworth Paxson, Mr. Wallach concentrates his practice on litigating and procuring patents. His practice also includes opinions, licensing, and counseling on patent, copyright, trademark, trade-secret, and e-commerce issues.

He has represented clients ranging from start-ups to Fortune 50 companies, often in high-profile matters. Since drafting and litigating the patent at issue in State Street Bank v. Signature Financial, much of Mr. Wallach's practice has focused on business methods, software, and computer systems. His representations have also included closely watched litigation matters regarding patenting e-commerce systems and copyrighting graphical user interfaces.

Technologies that Mr. Wallach has dealt with include client-server systems, medical devices, NMR spectrometers, vector network analyzers, inkjet cartridges and printers, polymer chemistry, and a variety of software programs and financial products, services, and instruments.

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES  

  • Testimony before Judicial Conference's Appellate Rules Advisory Committee on proposed amendments to the Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure, April 13, 2004
  • Statement of Issues authored for appellant's brief in Amazon.com v. Barnesandnoble.com excerpted in Bryan A. Garner, The Winning Brief, pages 80-81 (2d ed. Oxford U. Press 2004) 
  • Panelist on USPTO's Business Method Patents Roundtable, July 27, 2000.
  • Education

    Polytechnic Institute of New York B.S. with concentration in Computer Science

    Dilworth Paxson LLP Highlights

    Banking & Finance, Construction, Government Agencies, Corporate, Securities, Government Contract; Employment; Bankruptcy; Trusts; Internet; Intellectual Property; White Collar Crime; Business Organization; Labor Law; Estate Planning; Real Estate; Mental Health; Litigation; Environmental Law; Tax; Insurance; State and Local

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