Attorney Profiles

Steven I. Wallach 
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
phone (215) 575-7000
fax (215) 575-7200
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Areas of Focus:

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:
    George Washington University National Law Center, Washington, District of Columbia, 1986
    J.D.


    Polytechnic Institute of New York, Brooklyn, New York, 1983
    B.S. with concentration in Computer Science
    Honors: Cum Laude
    Honors: Tau Beta Pi Honor Society
    Honors: Eta Kappa Nu Honor Society
    Major:  Electrical Engineering


    Professional Activities:
    American Bar Association
    Member


    New York State Bar Association
    Member


    American Intellectual Property Law Association
    Member


    Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
    Member


    New York Intellectual Property Law Association
    Member


    Bar Admissions:
    New York
    U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
    U.S. Court of Appeals 9th Circuit
    U.S. Court of Appeals Federal Circuit
    Publications:
    Out of Cite, Out of Mind: A Lawyer's View of the Debate Over Noncitable Judicial Decisions, , Thirteenth Annual Fordham Conference on International Intellectual Property Law & Policy, April 2005


    How Could You Ever Patent That?: A Guide for the Perplexed, with a Few Remedies for Change, New York Law Journal, July 24, 2000

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