Duane Morris' San Francisco Office Adds IP Lawyers Stephen Durant and Robert Scheid
August 11, 2008
SAN FRANCISCO, August 11, 2008 - Duane Morris LLP has added Stephen Durant and Robert Scheid, Ph.D., formerly partners at a San Francisco IP boutique, as partners in the firm's San Francisco office. Durant and Scheid join the firm's Intellectual Property Practice Group, which now consists of more than 80 lawyers practicing in all aspects of patent, trademark and copyright law.
With more than 25 years of experience, Durant focuses his practice on general IP litigation, portfolio management, counseling and transactions. He has represented clients in the electronics, software and telecommunications industries, writing and prosecuting patents and advising clients on IP infringement matters and enforcement strategies. His experience includes computer architecture, optics, chip design software, wireless communications, holography, networking and computer software, among others. In addition, Durant regularly counsels clients on IP due diligence in corporate transactions as well as copyright, trademark, trade secret and licensing matters. He is a member of the American Intellectual Property Law Association and the Intellectual Property Owners Association.
Admitted to practice in California and before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), Durant earned his J.D. from Cornell Law School and his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Notre Dame.
Scheid focuses his practice primarily in patent prosecution with an emphasis on electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, computer software, and aerospace technology. He has assisted clients in patent matters related to control systems, animation, data security and encryption, databases, integrated hardware and software, distributed computing, storage devices, plasma processing, robotics and wireless networking, among others. Prior to practicing law, Scheid was a senior staff member at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, where he specialized in control technology. He is an active member of the American Intellectual Property Law Association, the Silicon Valley Intellectual Property Law Association and the San Francisco Intellectual Property Law Association.
Admitted to practice in California, the District of Columbia and before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), Scheid earned his J.D. from UCLA School of Law in 1994. He earned a Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from California Institute of Technology in 1982 and graduated with a B.S. in Mathematics, with honors, from Carnegie Mellon University in 1977.
