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Stuart S.
Levy
Of Counsel
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Stuart S. Levy is a member of the firm's Electrical/Mechanical Practice Group as Of Counsel. The focus of his legal practice is training, patent prosecution and patent appeal practice. He brings over 37 years experience in ex parte proceedings relative to his tenure in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) as a former Primary Examiner, Supervisory Patent Examiner (SPE) and Administrative Patent Judge with the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences (BPAI). Upon appointment as an Administrative Patent Judge in 2000, he spent over seven years deciding appeals involving Electrical, Computer, Business Method and Mechanical technologies.
Prior to his appointment to the BPAI, Mr. Levy was involved in a number of high-profile projects for the PTO, and served as vice-chair of the Supervisory Patent Examiners Classifiers Organization. Most notable among his projects were his roles as Project Leader for the creation of the Patent Assistance Center, for which he and his team received Vice President Al Gore's Hammer Award from the National Performance Review. He also served as Chair of the MPEP Revision Committee, in which eighteen teams and several special topic committees provided a four-year, comprehensive revision of the MPEP.
Bars
Virginia
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
Education
George Mason University School of Law (J.D. top quintile of class 1980)
Maxwell School of Syracuse University (Certificate in Advanced Public Management )
City College of New York (B.E. Electrical Engineering, 1972)
Associations
Intellectual Property Owners Association (IPO)
Virginia State Bar Association - Intellectual Property Section
Publications and Teaching
Bilski v. Kappos: New Vista or End of the Road for many Business Methods and new Technologies?
Bilski Guidance to Examiners; What Attorneys Should Know
BNA Electronic and Software Patents- Law and Practice Second Edition: 2009 Cumulative Supplement Chapter 9
PTO Publishes Interim Examination Instructions for Evaluating Subject Matter Eligibility Under 35 U.S.C. § 101 in View of In Re Bilski