About Steven A.
Steven A. Garner started his expert lifestyles as an engineer and later moved into regulation, carrying technical training into legal work that intersects technological know-how and business. He holds a B.S. in engineering from Rutgers College of Engineering and earned a JD/MBA in 2002 from Rutgers School of Law. That twin diploma formed each his strategy to client issues and the kinds of things he accepts.
After completing his undergraduate diploma in 1996, Garner labored as a design engineer at DLB Associates. The hands-on experience in product improvement and technical layout supplied a realistic grounding in the engineering issues he would later encounter in patent and intellectual property things. He returned to Rutgers for law school and business research, finishing the JD/MBA in 2002.
Garner began his legal career immediately following law school at Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik, joining the company in 2002. He moved to an in-house position with Con Air Corporation in 2004, where he handled a range of company and transactional matters. In 2007 he opened his personal practice, Steven A. Garner, Lawyer at Law, LLC, and has operated that office since. Running his own company shifted him into a tradition that mixes counseling for agencies and person inventors with active prosecution of intellectual property rights.
He is admitted to practice in New Jersey and New York, memberships that he has maintained since 2003. He is also registered to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. On the local bar front, Garner holds memberships in the Monmouth Bar Association and the Somerset County Bar Association. He serves as a barrister in the Haydn Proctor Inn of Court, an organization that brings collectively judges and attorneys for mentoring and professional discussion.
Garner’s background blends technical education and legal education. The engineering degree makes him relaxed reviewing technical disclosures and patent specs. The enterprise education shapes his conversations about licensing, portfolio control, and transactional danger. His practice through the years has covered patent preparation and prosecution, trademark things, and counseling on intellectual property approach for small and mid-sized enterprises.
He keeps a private practice thru Steven A. Garner, Lawyer at Law, LLC, representing clients before the USPTO and in state courts. He concentrates his practice on patent prosecution, intellectual estate counseling and related litigation.
