Steven R. Laxton
Associate
Steven is a patent litigation associate with a strong electrical engineering background. He combines his technical and legal training to focus on patent litigation involving electronics, mobile devices and advanced technology systems.
Steven has a B.S. and M.S. in electrical engineering and recently worked as a judicial law clerk in the Eastern District of Texas for Magistrate Judge Roy S. Payne in the Marshall Division. As a judicial clerk in the Marshall Division, Steven has experience with dozens of Markman hearings regarding several electrical, mechanical, and software-based technologies as well as various patent and federal civil procedure issues. During engineering school Steven studied and conducted research regarding a variety of technologies in the photonic and device science fields.
- CALI Excellence for the Future Award in Patent Practice
- CALI Excellence for the Future Award in Real World IP Lawmaking
- Delta Theta Phi Most Outstanding Student in the Region
- Willard H. Pedrick Scholar
- Benjamin Herbert Scholar
- Member, Christian Legal Society
- Member, Federalist Society
- Member, Eastern District of Texas Bar Association
- Member, Former Law Clerks of the Eastern District of Texas
- Member, Delta Theta Phi
Credentials
Education
Steven received his B.S. in electrical engineering with a specialization in power engineering and biomedical imaging from Texas A&M University in 2015, where he was an undergraduate research scholar and a member of the Delta Chi fraternity. He received his M.E., magna cum laude, in electrical engineering with a specialization in device science and nanotechnology from Texas A&M University in 2017. He received his J.D. in 2019 from the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University, where he was an editor at Jurimetrics, the Journal of Law, Science, and Technology. He received the CALI Excellence for the Future Award in Patent Practice and Real World IP Lawmaking.
During engineering school Steven studied power systems, solar power generation, medical imaging, fiber optic communications, lasers, photonics, thin films, microelectromechanical systems, nanotechnology, nanobiotechnology, and nanofabrication. Steven’s research was directed to photonic integrated circuits.
Admissions
- Texas
Clerkships
- USDC - Eastern District of TX for the Honorable Roy S. Payne
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- Author, Demonstration of a stand-alone cylindrical fiber coil for optical amplifiers, Proc. SPIE 9586, Photonic Fiber and Crystal Devices: Advances in Materials and Innovations in Device Applications IX, 958619 (26 August 2015); doi: 10.1117/12.2188368
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