David L. Stewart

Email:
dstewart@addmg.com

Telephone:
407-841-2330

Facsimile:
407-841-2343

Melbourne

Practice Areas:

• Patent Acquisition and Counseling
• Trademark and Copyright Acquisition and Counseling
• Intellectual Property Litigation
• Intellectual Property Transactions

Admitted:

• 2002: Florida
• 2000: District of Columbia
• 1993: United States Patent and Trademark Office
• 1974: Virginia

Education:

• 1989: George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia ; all but dissertation for PhD in Information Technology
• 1974: J.D., George Washington University, with honors
• 1967: B.S. in Physics, California State University at Los Angeles, with honors.

Biography:

Mr. Stewart is a Florida Board Certified Intellectual Property Attorney. He engages in patent prosecution and reexamination, trademark and copyright acquisition, in intellectual property counseling and enforcement. He serves as an expert witness and consultant in patent matters. He also is an adjunct professor at Florida Institute of Technology.

Mr. Stewart formerly served in the United States Patent and Trademark Office as an administrative patent judge, special assistant to Assistant Commissioner for Patents, chief petitions examiner and patent examiner in the multiplex communications systems art. He also served as deputy head from the United States Patent Office to the 1988 technical negotiations with Japanese and European Patent Offices in Tokyo, Japan.

Mr. Stewart has authored the following publications:

• “Patenting of Software—Proposed Guidelines”, Journal of Patent and Trademark Society, September 1995, p. 681
• “Inter Partes Reexam--On Steroids”, Vol. 85, No. 8, Journal of the Patent and Trademark Office Society, August 2003; p. 656 et seq.

Affiliations:

• The District of Columbia Bar
• The Florida Bar
• The Virginia Bar

Notable Decisions:

• Decisions on cold fusion (27 USPQ 2d 1981) and non-statutory subject matter (BNA Patent, Trademark and Copyright Journal) (1993)
• Ex parte Veldhuis, 44 PCTJ 486 (September 17, 1992)