Steven Nugent is of counsel in Thomas Horstemeyer’s prosecution group. He has over a decade of experience preparing and prosecuting patent applications in a variety of technical areas. Steven has drafted and secured the allowance of hundreds of patent applications across multiple technologies, including complex mechanical and medical devices, recycling systems, fitness equipment, polymer processing, computer systems and software, artificial intelligence/machine learning, and business methods, among others.

Steven has extensive experience counseling clients of all sizes, from Fortune 500 companies and universities to individual inventors and startups. He routinely advises clients on developing strategies for using patents and other forms of intellectual property to protect their inventions and other intellectual capital.

A significant part of Steven’s practice involves developing resource-conscious strategies for designing intellectual property programs tailored to the needs of particular clients and executing and implementing those programs according to each client’s business needs.

Steven received his J.D., with honors, from the University of Florida and a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering, with highest honors, from the Georgia Institute of Technology. Steven is registered to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office and in Georgia.