Patent & Trademark Lawyer – Steven Rinehart

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Steven Rinehart is a patent attorney in Salt Lake City who handles preparation, prosecution and litigation of patents, trademarks and domain names. He obtained his Juris Doctorate in 2003 from the University of Utah after graduating from Brigham Young University (BYU) in Provo. He studied computer science, naval science and English as an undergraduate. Steve has filed over 1,000 patents and trademarks and handled hundreds of lawsuits and arbitrations in various U.S. and international courts involving patents and trademarks. Steve regularly handles domain name disputes (a form of a trademark dispute), including UDRP and ACPA matters, and owns a webdesign company which he can use to help clients put trademarks into use. Steve is licensed before the Commonwealth of Virginia, the State of Utah, the USPTO, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. He has experience litigating intellectual property cases before the TTAB (Trademark Trial and Appeal Board), the PTAB (Patent Trial and Appeal Board), the ITC (International Trade Commission), Court of International Trade, National Arbitration Forum (NAF), and World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). He has appeared in IP infringement lawsuits in the courts of 17 different states. He is a partner with VestedLaw LLP d/b/a Western IP Law. Steven is also on the Board of Directors of Friends of the Lusitania, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization which owns the salvage rights to the RMS Lusitania (torpedoed off the coast of Ireland in 1915, bringing the U.S. into WWI).