Neil Steinberg
Patent Strategy Group
Our integrated approach to procurement, licensing and litigation enhances the value of our client's intellectual property.
Practice
Areas
Our integrated approach to procurement, licensing and litigation enhances the value of our client's intellectual property.
- Prepare and Prosecute Patent Applications
Leveraging years of legal, technical, and business experiences, we work closely with our client's management, product development and engineering to assess patentability and value, and prepare and prosecute applications to capture that value.
- Global IP Strategy
We develop and implement creative and cost-efficient global intellectual property strategies that work within our client's business objectives, to provide patent protection in countries having high consumption and those having significant manufacturing.
- Technology Licensing
We employ an integrated approach to licensing and procurement to offer a full range of advanced intellectual property services including negotiating license agreements, joint development agreements, and other key transactions concerning intellectual property.
- Protection and Enforcement of IP Rights
Our unique blend of licensing, litigation, and business experience, in both private and corporate practice, allows us to design practical, actionable, and cost-efficient approaches to addressing domestic and international intellectual property issues.
- Analyze and Evaluate Competitive Portfolios
We leverage years of legal, technical, and business experiences, while working closely with company's management, product development and engineering, to evaluate competitor patent portfolios, and prepare, develop and implement creative strategies to achieve the client's business objectives.
- Asset Identification
Leveraging years of legal, technical, and business experiences, our strategies identify valuable intellectual property assets – whether developed in-house or via third party – to meet our client's immediate goals and long-term business objectives.
Our Firm
The Patent Strategy Group is committed to working with a select group of small emerging companies to create value from, and protection for intellectual property. We work closely with the company's management, product development, and engineering teams to develop and implement an intellectual property strategy that is consistent with the company's business objectives. We continually revisit the company's intellectual property strategy to ensure that it meets those objectives – as they evolve and grow.
A successful intellectual property strategy in today's competitive global business environment requires a close, well-coordinated working relationship between the company and patent counsel. We employ an integrated approach to procurement, licensing and litigation to enhance the overall value of our client's intellectual property. To this end, we provide a full range of intellectual property services. We have a unique blend of intellectual property experience, and a practical, cost efficient approach to procuring intellectual property and addressing intellectual property issues.
Neil Steinberg
Neil Steinberg is the principal and founder of the Patent Strategy Group.
Mr. Steinberg is the former Vice President of Intellectual Property and General Patent Counsel at Rambus Inc. While at Rambus, Mr. Steinberg was responsible for company-wide intellectual property matters, including strategic patent acquisition, patent and technology licensing and global patent enforcement. Notably, Mr. Steinberg conceived of and implemented Rambus's strategic patent portfolio acquisition, licensing and enforcement programs directed to the memory, memory controller and processor markets. His efforts resulted in significant royalties based on intellectual property transactions with Intel, Toshiba, Hitachi, NEC, Samsung, Mitsubishi, Oki Electric, and Matsushita.
Prior to joining Rambus, Mr. Steinberg was Assistant General Patent Counsel, Semiconductor Division, at Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. While at Samsung Electronics, Mr. Steinberg was responsible for worldwide patent licensing and litigation relating to semiconductor products and processes, including memory devices, thin film transistor displays, and high power transistors.
Mr. Steinberg has experience in a broad range of intellectual property matters including domestic and foreign patent portfolio preparation and procurement, patent licensing, and worldwide patent enforcement. Mr. Steinberg combines his intellectual property expertise, engineering background and business experience to design and implement innovative and effective strategies to obtain and capitalize on patents through programs tailored to achieve client objectives.
Mr. Steinberg has practiced in a broad range of technologies, including battery charging systems and techniques, FPGAs and switch interconnect networks, Tensor processors and image processing, semiconductor memory and memory controller design including DRAM and MRAM structures, design and fabrication, MEMS structures and fabrication, portable activity monitoring devices, and telecommunications.
Mr. Steinberg is a Registered Patent Attorney, admitted to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. He is a member of the bar in the District of Columbia, and the Bar of the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.
Mr. Steinberg earned his B.S. in Electrical Engineering, with honors, from Rochester Institute of Technology. He earned a JD, cum laude, from Suffolk University Law School.